I want a hippopotamus for Christmas,

only a hippopotamus will do 

Don't want a doll,

no dinky tinker toy

I want a hippopotamus to play with 

and enjoy



I want a hippopotamus for Christmas

I don't think Santa Claus will mind, 

do you? 

He won't have to use a dirty chimney fleu

Just bring him through the front door,

that's the easy thing to do



I can see me now on Christmas morning,

creeping down the stairs

Oh, what joy and what surprise, 

when I open up my eyes and see a hippo hero

standing there



I want a hippopotamus for Christmas,

only a hippopotamus will do

No crocodiles, no rhinosorusses,

I only like hippopotamusses

and hippopotamusses like me too



Mom says the hippo would eat me up but then,

teacher says the hippo is a vegetarian



There's lots of room for him,

in our two car garage

I'd feed him there and wash him there,

and give him his massage



I can see me now on Christmas morning,

creeping down the stairs

Oh, what joy and what surprise,

when I open up my eyes and see a hippo hero 

standing there



I want a hippopotamus for Christmas,

only a hippopotamus will do

No crocodiles, no rhinosorusses,

I only like hippopotamusses

and hippopotamusses like me too