I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas

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(I) want a hip - po - pot - a - mus for Christ - mas a

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hip - po - pot - a - mus is all i want

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don't want a doll no dink - y tink - er toy I
Pop says a hippo would eat me up but then

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want a hip - o - pot - a - mus to play with and en - joy I
Teach - er says a hip - po is a veg - e - tar - i - an I
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want a hip - o - pot - a - mus for Christ - mas I

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don't think San - ta Claus will mind do you?

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kind I saw last sum - mer in the zoo
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won't have to use our dirt - y chim - ney flue just

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ga - rage I'd

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bring him through the front door that's the eas - y thing to do I can
feed him there and wash him there and give him his mas - sage

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see me now on Christ - mas morn - ing
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creep - ing down the stairs. Oh what

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joy and what sur - prise when I o - pen up my eyes to see my

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want a hip - po - pot - a - mus for Christ - mas

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on - ly a hip - po - pot - a - mus will do

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no crock - o - diles or rhi noc - er - os - es

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no kan - ga - roos or duck bill plat - y - pus - es

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I on - ly like hip - po - pot - a - mus - es and

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hip - po - pot - a - mus - es like me too!