I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas – A Great Big World – letras

I want a hippopotamus for ChristmasOnly a hippopotamus will doI don’t want a doll, no dinky TinkertoyI want a hippopotamus to play with and enjoyI want a hippopotamus for ChristmasI don’t think Santa Claus will mind, do you?He won’t have to use our dirty chimney flueJust bring him through the front doorThat’s the easy thing to doI can see me now on Christmas morningCreeping down the stairsOh, what joy and what surpriseWhen I open up my eyesTo see my hippo hero standing thereI want a hippopotamus for ChristmasOnly a hippopotamus will doNo crocodiles, or rhinocerosesesI only like hippopotamusesesAnd hippopotamuses like me tooI want a hippopotamus for ChristmasA hippopotamus is all I wantMom says the hippo would eat me upBut then teacher says a hippo is a vegetarianI want a hippopotamus for ChristmasThe kind I saw this summer at the zooThere’s lots of room for him in our two car garageI’d feed him there and wash him thereAnd give him his massageI can see me now on Christmas morningCreeping down the stairsOh, what joy and what surpriseWhen I open up my eyesTo see my hippo hero standing thereI want a hippopotamus, I want a hippopotamusI want, I want, I really really wantHippopotamus, hippopotamusI want a hippopotamus for ChristmasOnly a hippopotamus will doI don’t want a doll, no dinky TinkertoyI want a hippopotamus to play with and enjoyNo crocodiles, or rhinocerosesesI only like hippopotamusesesAnd hippopotamuses like me tooChristmas