Hippopotamus-Michael Flanders/Donald Swann

[ti:Hippopotamus] [ar:Michael Flanders/Donald Swann] [al:At The Drop Of Hat] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Hippopotamus - Michael Flanders/Donald Swann [00:19.70]A bold Hippopotamus was standing one day [00:23.88]On the banks of the cool Shalimar [00:26.48] [00:27.45]He gazed at the bottom as it peacefully lay [00:31.12]By the light of the evening star [00:33.59] [00:34.65]Away on a hilltop sat combing her hair [00:37.69] [00:38.25]Was a fair Hippopotami maid [00:40.61] [00:41.64]The Hippopotamus was no ignoramus [00:45.32] [00:45.91]And sang her this sweet serenade [00:48.80] [00:50.99]Mud mud glorious mud [00:54.42] [00:55.12]Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood [00:58.12] [00:58.75]So follow me follow [01:01.23]Down to the hollow [01:03.07] [01:03.59]And there let us wallow [01:05.51] [01:06.07]In glorious mud [01:09.90] [01:11.93]The fair Hippopotama he aimed to entice [01:15.75]From her seat on that hilltop above [01:18.31] [01:19.31]As she hadn't got a Ma to give her advice [01:22.91]Came tiptoeing down to her love [01:25.42] [01:27.55]Like thunder the forest reechoed the sound [01:30.55] [01:31.19]Of the song that they sang when they met [01:33.34] [01:34.46]His inamorata adjusted her garter [01:38.20] [01:38.90]And lifted her voice in duet [01:41.73]Blood secle [01:42.73] [01:43.86]Mud mud glorious mud [01:47.17] [01:47.82]Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood [01:51.31]So follow me follow [01:53.32] [01:53.91]Down to the hollow [01:56.40]And there let us wallow [01:58.39]In glorious mud [02:01.61] [02:04.17]Now more hippopotami began to convene [02:07.99]On the banks of that river so wide [02:10.45] [02:11.44]I wonder now what am I to say of the scene [02:15.04]That ensued by the Shalimar side [02:17.51] [02:18.54]They dived all at once [02:20.37]With an earsplitting sposh [02:22.10] [02:22.82]Then rose to the surface again [02:25.31] [02:26.44]A regular army of Hippopotami [02:30.71] [02:31.39]All singing this haunting refrain [02:34.55]Now jeg sucks [02:35.71] [02:36.45]Mud mud glorious mud [02:40.00] [02:40.63]Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood [02:44.43]So follow me follow [02:47.10]Down to the hollow [02:49.74]And there let us wallow [02:52.39]In glorious mud