I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas 1950

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 18 Dec 2012
2012

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
I don't want a doll,
no dinkey tinker toys
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
a 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, what surprise
When I open up my eyes
To see a hippo hero standing there

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
No crocodiles, no rhinosauruses
I only likes hippopotamuses
And hippopotamuses like me, too.

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do

Mom says a hippo would eat me up, but then
Teacher says a hippo is a vegetarian
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
the kind I saw last summer in the zoo...

We got a car with room for two
in our twocar 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 a hippo hero standing there

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
No crocodiles, no rhinosauruseses
I only likes hippopotamuses
And hippopotamuses like me, too.....

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas 1950
by John Rox
© 1950 by Folkways Music Publishers Inc.  N.Y.
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Tuesday 18 December 2012 at 17.54
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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