Artist: | Christmas Songs (English) |
User: | mark clarke |
Duration: | 130 seconds |
Delay: | 12 seconds |
Chord names: | Not defined |
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Comment: | - |
I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas
Gayla Peevey, recorded in 1953; lyrics and music by John Rox
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I want a hippopotamus for Christmas; Only a hippopotamus will do
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Don't want a doll, no dinky Tinker Toy; I want a hippopotamus to play with and enjoy
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I want a hippopotamus for Christmas; I don't think Santa Claus will mind, do you?
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He won't have to use our dirty chimney flue
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Just bring him through the front door, that's the easy thing to do
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I can see me now on Christmas morning, creeping down the stairs
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Oh what joy and what surprise, when I open up my eyes
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to see a hippo hero standing there
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I want a hippopotamus for Christmas; Only a hippopotamus will do
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No crocodiles, no rhinoceroses; I only like hippopotamuses
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And hippopotamuses like me too
[Interlude]
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Mom says the hippo would eat me up, but then
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Teacher says a hippo is a vegeterian
[Interlude]
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There's lots of room for him in our two-car garage
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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
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Oh what joy and what surprise, when I open up my eyes
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to see a hippo hero standing there
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I want a hippopotamus for Christmas; Only a hippopotamus will do
D7 A7 D7 D
No crocodiles, or rhinoceroseses; I only like hippopotamuseses
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And hippopotamuses like me too