The Hippopotamus Song-Ian Wallace/Donald Swann

[00:04.62]A bold hippopotamus was standing one day [00:08.75]On the banks of the cool Shalimar [00:12.64]He gazed at the bottom as he peacefully lay [00:16.59]By the light of the evening star [00:21.00]Away on the hilltop sat combing her hair [00:25.15]His fair hippopotami maid [00:29.50]The hippopotamus was no ignoramus [00:34.49]So sang her this sweet serenade [00:40.64]Mud mud glorious mud [00:44.94]Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood [00:48.76]So follow me follow down to the hollow [00:53.78]And there let me wallow in glorious mud [01:03.52]The fair hippopotamus he aimed to entice [01:07.67]From her seat on that hilltop above [01:11.71]As she hadn't got a ma to give her advice [01:15.95]Came tiptoeing down to her love [01:21.63]Like thunder the forest re-echoed the sound [01:25.83]Of the song that they sang when they met [01:30.06]His inamorata adjusted her garter [01:35.19]And lifted her voice in duet [01:40.43]Mud mud glorious mud [01:44.63]Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood [01:48.42]So follow me follow down to the hollow [01:54.21]And there let me wallow in glorious mud [02:03.09]Now more hippopotami began to convene [02:07.22]On the banks of that river so wide [02:11.14]I wonder now what am I to say of the scene [02:15.12]That ensued by the Shalimar side [02:19.39]They dived all at once with an ear splitting sposh [02:24.91]Then rose to the surface again [02:29.35]A regular army of hippopotami [02:34.77]All singing this haunting refrain [02:40.05]Mud mud glorious mud [02:44.18]Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood [02:47.86]So follow me follow down to the hollow [02:53.07]And there let me wallow in glorious mud [03:02.28]