[00:00.00]I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas - Christmas
[00:04.28]Written by：Rox John Jefferson
[00:08.56]I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
[00:13.23]Only a hippopotamus will do
[00:17.39]Don't want a doll no dinky tinker toy
[00:21.41]I want a hippopotamus to play with and enjoy
[00:25.38]I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
[00:29.87]I don't think Santa Claus will mind do you
[00:34.02]He won't have to use our dirty chimney flue
[00:38.12]Just bring him through the front door that's the easy thing to do
[00:41.96]I can see me now on Christmas morning creeping down the stairs
[00:50.23]Oh what joy and what surprise when I open up my eyes
[00:54.33]To see my hippo hero standing there
[00:58.95]I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
[01:03.26]Only a hippopotamus will do
[01:07.58]No crocodiles no rhinoceroses
[01:11.53]I only like hippopotamuses
[01:15.77]And hippopotamuses like me too
[01:28.44]Mom says the hippo would eat me up but then
[01:32.47]Teacher says a hippo is a vegetarian
[01:45.01]There's lots of room for him in our two car garage
[01:49.06]I'd feed him there and wash him there and give him his massage
[01:52.98]I can see me now on Christmas morning creeping down the stairs
[02:01.29]Oh what joy and what surprise when I open up my eyes
[02:05.23]To see a hippo hero standing there
[02:10.02]I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
[02:14.28]Only a hippopotamus will do
[02:18.52]No crocodiles or rhinoceroseses
[02:22.71]I only like hippopotamuses
[02:26.70]And hippopotamuses like me too