The Hippopotamus Song-Flanders & Swann

[00:04.83]A bold hippopotamus was standing one day [00:08.91]On the banks of the cool Shalimar [00:12.44]He gazed at the bottom as it peacefully lay [00:16.15]By the light of the evening star [00:19.75]Away on a hilltop sat combing her hair [00:23.40]His fair hippopotami maid [00:26.79]The hippopotamus was no ignoramus [00:31.19]And sang her this sweet serenade [00:36.18]Mud mud glorious mud [00:40.22]Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood [00:43.86]So follow me follow down to the hollow [00:48.79]And there let us wallow in glorious mud [00:57.28]The fair hippopotama he aimed to entice [01:01.00]From her seat on that hilltop above [01:04.49]As she hadn't got a ma to give her advice [01:08.11]Came tip toeing down to her love [01:12.97]Like thunder the forest reechoed the sound [01:16.55]Of the song that they sang as they met [01:19.89]His inamorata adjusted her garter and lifted her voice in duet [01:27.57]For setal [01:29.37]Mud mud glorious mud [01:33.18]Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood [01:36.83]So follow me follow down to the hollow [01:41.91]And there let us wallow in glorious mud [01:49.78]Now more hippopotami began to convene [01:53.57]On the banks of that river so wide [01:57.04]I wonder now what am I to say of the scene [02:00.65]That ensued by the Shalimar side [02:04.16]They dived all at once with an ear splitting splosh [02:08.48]Then rose to the surface again [02:12.20]A regular army of hippopot army [02:17.12]All singing this haunting refrain [02:20.33]Not to charles [02:22.08]Mud mud glorious mud [02:26.27]Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood [02:30.22]So follow me follow down to the hollow [02:35.53]And there let us wallow in glorious mud [02:43.87]