I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas

I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas - The Countdown Kids

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas

A hippopotamus is all I want

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

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas

A hippopotamus is all I want

Mom says the hippo would eat me up

But then teacher says a hippo is a vegetarian

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas

The kind I saw this summer in the zoo

We got cars with room for two and in our two car garage

I'd feed him there and wash him there

And give him his massage

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 hippopotamuses

And hippopotamuses like me too