The Hippopotamus Song (Introduced by Michael Flanders) [1991 Remaster] (1991 Remaster)

(藝術歌曲《河馬之歌》) (1991 Remaster) - Michael Flanders/Donald Swann

Lyrics by：Michael Flanders

Composed by：Donald Swann

Produced by：George Martin

A bold hippopotamus was standing one day

On the banks of the cool Shalimar

He gazed at the bottom

As it peacefully lay

By the light of the evening star

Away on a hilltop sat combing her hair

His fair hippopotami maid

The hippopotamus was no ignoramus

And sang her this sweet serenade

Mud mud glorious mud

Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood

So follow me follow

Down to the hollow

And there let us wallow in glorious mud

The fair hippopotama he aimed to entice

From her seat on that hilltop above

As she hadn't got a ma to give her advice

Came tip-toeing down to her love

Like thunder the forest re-echoed the sound

Of the song that they sang as they met

His inamorata adjusted her garter

And lifted her voice in duet

In rason

Good hands

Good hands

Truth make a grends

All you just serest sakkakor nehabaij

Thakpas pis por you tham

Follow me follow

Nipabi jiayo piyabo

Down to the hollow

Nio tonk biyak koyem

Sob tro koyogram

Back to inmprove our culture relation

Now more hippopotami began to convene

On the banks of that river so wide

I wonder now what-am-I to say of the scene

That ensued by the Shalimar side

They dived all at once

With an ear-splitting splosh

Then rose to the surface again

A regular army of hippopotarmy

All singing this haunting refrain

Falsetto

Mud mud glorious mud

Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood

So follow me follow

Down to the hollow

And there let us wallow in glorious mud