I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas

I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas - A Great Big World

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas

Only a hippopotamus will do

I don't want a doll

No dinky Tinkertoy

I want a hippopotamus to play with and enjoy

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas

I don't think Santa Claus will mind do you

He won't have to use our dirty chimney flue

Just bring him through the front door

That's the easy thing to do

I can see me now on Christmas morning

Creeping down the stairs

Oh what joy and what surprise

When I open up my eyes

To see my hippo hero standing there

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas

Only a hippopotamus will do

No crocodiles or rhinoceroseses

I only like hippopotamuseses

And hippopotamuses like me too

Mom says the hippo would eat me up

But then teacher says a hippo is a vegetarian

I can see me now on Christmas morning

Creeping down the stairs

Oh what joy and what surprise

When I open up my eyes

To see my hippo hero standing there

I want a hippopotamus

I want a hippopotamus

I want

I want

I really really really want

Hippopotamuseses

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas

Only a hippopotamus will do

I don't want a doll

No dinky Tinkertoy

I want a hippopotamus to play with and enjoy

No crocodiles or rhinoceroseses

I only like hippopotamuses

And hippopotamuses like me too

Christmas