I Want A Hippotamus For Christmas Lyrics - Gayla Peevey

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 

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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 at the zoo 

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 

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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