I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
 Only a hippopotamus will do
 I don't want a doll, no dinky Tinkertoy
 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 our dirty chimney flue
 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 a joy and what surprise
 When I open up my eyes
 To see a hippo hero standing there
 I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
 Only a hippopotamus will do
 No crocodiles, no rhinoceroseses
 I only like hippopotamuseses
 And hippopotamuses like me too
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 Mom says the hippo would eat me up
 But then teacher says a hippo is a vegetarian
 I can see me now on Christmas morning
 Creeping down the stairs
 Oh, what a joy and what surprise
 When I open up my eyes
 To see a hippo hero standing there
 I want a hippopotamus (I want a hippopotamus)
 I want it (I want it), I really, really, really want
 A hippopotamus (hippopotamus)
 I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
 Only a hippopotamus will do
 I don't want a doll, no dinky Tinkertoy
 I want a hippopotamus to play with and enjoy
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 No crocodiles, no rhinoceroseses
 I only like hippopotamuses
 And hippopotamuses like me too
 Christmas