I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas

Gayla Peevey, recorded in 1953

Lyrics and music by John Rox
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas

Only a hippopotamus will do

Don't want a doll, no dinky Tinker Toy

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 surprisewhen I open up my eyesto see a hippo hero standing there

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas

Only a hippopotamus will do

No crocodiles, no rhinoceroses

I only like hippopotamuses

And hippopotamuses like me too (Short Music Interlude)

Mom says the hippo would eat me up,

but thenTeacher says a hippo is a vegeterian(Short Music Interlude)

There's lots of room for him 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 eyesto see a 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!