Shirley Temple - I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas lyrics

rate me

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 a dirty chimney fleu

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 and see a hippo hero

standing there

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas,

only a hippopotamus will do

No crocodiles, no rhinosorusses,

I only like hippopotamusses

and hippopotamusses like me too

Mom says the hippo would eat me up but then,

teacher says the 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 and see a hippo hero

standing there

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas,

only a hippopotamus will do

No crocodiles, no rhinosorusseses,

I only like hippopotamusseses

and hippopotamusses like me too

Thanks to Shelly for these lyrics

Thanks to Zeck Packard for these lyrics