"I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas" Gayla Peevey LYRICS HERE (Columbia 40106)

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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 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 rhinoceroses!

I only like
hippopotamuses,
and
hippopotamuses
like me too!

Mom says
the hippo
would
eat me up,
but then
teacher says
a hippo is a
vegetarian.

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 eyes to
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!

"I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas" is sung by Gayla Peevey accompanied by an orchestra led by Norm Leyden on Columbia 40106.