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"I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas"

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 vegeterian

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 a Christmas novelty song written by John Coctoasten and performed by Gayla Peevey in 1953. It is a Dr. Demento Christmas staple, and is currently available on Dr. Demento's The Greatest Novelty Records of All Time Vol. 6: Christmas.

Here's an interesting fact about the popular Christmas hippopotamus song - in 1953 a ten-year-old girl from Oklahoma, Gayla Peevey sang the song as a way to raise money for the Oklahoma City Zoo's first hippopotamus. It became a nationwide hit after that, although John Rox wrote the song "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas" in 1950! The song was not written specifically for the Oklahoma zoo, its just that when they needed the hippo the song came out so the Christmas hippopotamus song just fitted in.

 

I wish I wrote this, but I didn't.  I got it off the web URL here:

http://www.christmas-lyrics.org/i-want-a-hippopotamus-for-christmas-lyrics.html 

I got the lyrics there, too!

HiPpOpOtAmUsEs RoCk

ReAd ThE PoEm BeLoW!!!!

Hippo's Hope by Shel Silverstein

There once was a hippo who wanted to fly
--Fly-hi-dee, try-hi-dee, my-hi-dee-ho.
So he sewed him some wings that could flap through the sky
--Sky-hi-dee, fly-hi-dee, why-hi-dee-go.

He climbed to the top of a mountain of snow
--Snow-hi-dee, slow-hi-dee, oh-hi-dee-hoo.
With the clouds high above and the sea down below
--Where-hi-dee, there-hi-dee, scare-hi-dee-boo.

(Happy ending)

And he flipped and he flapped and he bellowed so loud
--Now-hi-dee, loud-hi-dee, proud-hi-dee-poop.
And he sailed like an eagle, off into the clouds
--High-hi-dee, fly-hi-dee, bye-hi-dee-boop.

(Unhappy ending)

And he leaped like a frog and he fell like a stone
--Stone-hi-dee, lone-hi-dee, own-hi-dee-flop.
And he crashed and he drowned and broke all his bones
--Bones-hi-dee, moans-hi-dee, groans-hi-dee-glop.

(Chicken ending)

He looked up at the sky and looked down at the sea
--Sea-hi-dee, free-hi-dee, whee-hi-dee-way.
And he turned and went home and had cookies and tea
--That's hi-dee, all hi-dee, I have to say.
 

These are the Hippo Songs that I wrote myself. 

Hippo on the Highway        

Hippopotamus-Author

 


There's a hippopotamus and he's sitting on the highway

Sitting on the highway, sitting on the highway

There's a hippopotamus and he's sitting on the highway, now what do you think of that? Huh? What do you think of that?

The hippo says "Hi!", and I say "Hi"; The Hippo says "hey", and I say "hey"!

The hippo says "look", and I say "where?" the hippo says "over, over there"

So I look and what do I see?  A whole herd of Hippos looking up at me!

I walk over to the hippos, introduce myself

introduce myself, introduce myself.

I walk over to the hippos, introduce myself!

Now what do you think of that? Huh? What do you think of that?

A little baby hippo, looks up at me!

I'm so happy, why I'm bursting, can't you see?

the hippo says his name, and I say mine!  Hippo Hero, I'm feeling fine!

Snow flurries start to fall on our heads,

on our heads, on our heads

Snow flurries fall on our heads, Now what do you think of that? Huh? What do you think of that?

Mamma hippo says " put on the cocca!"

Daddy hippo says " I'll have a mocha!"

So,  then, when I agree, All the hippos come hug me!

The hippos drink their liquid, and I drink mine, I drink mine, I drink mine!

The hippos drink their liquid, and I drink mine

Now what do you think of that? Huh? What do you think of that?

My hippo friends said they had to go

Even when I told them "NO!"

Unfournately, they had to say bye bye

And go back to hippo heaven in the sky.

The hippopotamus walked off the highway, off the highway, off the highway.

The hippopotamus walked off the highway, now what do you think of that?
Huh? What do you think of that?

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