00:00I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
00:11Only a hippopotamus will do
00:15Don't want a doll, no dinky tinker toy
00:20I want a hippopotamus to play with and enjoy
00:25I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
00:28I don't think Santa Claus will mind you
00:32He won't have to use a dirty chimney flue
00:37Just bring him through the front door, that's the easy thing to do
00:42I can see me now on Christmas morning creeping down the stairs
00:50Oh, what joy and what surprise when I open up my eyes
00:54To see a hippo hero standing there
00:58I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
01:04Only a hippopotamus will do
01:08No crocodiles, no rhinoceroses
01:11I only like hippopotamuses
01:15And hippopotamus is like me too
01:19Mom says a hippo would eat me up but then
01:32Teacher says a hippo is a vegetarian
01:36There's lots of room for him in our two-car garage
01:49I'd feed him there and wash him there and give him his massage
01:53I can see me now on Christmas morning creeping down the stairs
02:01Oh, what joy and what surprise when I open up my eyes
02:05To see a hippo hero standing there
02:09I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
02:13Only a hippopotamus will do
02:17No crocodiles or rhinoceroses
02:22I only like hippopotamuses
02:27And hippopotamuses like me too
02:30No crocodiles or rhinoceroses
02:46Or in a hippopotamus
02:49Or in a hippopotamus
