I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas - Christmas Eve

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas

Only a hippopotamus will do Don’t want a doll

No donkey tinker toy

I want a hippopotamus to play with and enjoy

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas

I don’t think Santa Clause 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 a 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 swing it Mom says a 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 a 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 rhinoceroses

I only like hippopotamuses

And hippopotamuses like me too