I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas-Gayla Peevey

[ti:I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas] [ar:Gayla Peevey] [al:I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas - EP] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas - Gayla Peevey [00:08.56]I want a hippopotamus for Christmas [00:12.28] [00:13.19]Only a hippopotamus will do [00:16.37] [00:17.40]Don't want a dog [00:19.01] [00:19.55]No inky dinker Toy [00:21.54]I want a hippopotamus to play with and enjoy [00:25.56]I want a hippopotamus for Christmas [00:29.42] [00:30.02]I don't think Santa Claus will mind do you [00:33.34] [00:34.21]He won't have to use our dirty chimney flue [00:38.50]Just bring him through the front door [00:40.21]That's the easy thing to do [00:42.53]I can see me now on Christmas morning [00:47.19]Creeping down the stairs [00:50.38] [00:50.96]Oh what joy and what surprise [00:53.16]When I open up my eyes [00:55.02]To see a hippo hero standing there [00:59.68]I want a hippopotamus for Christmas [01:03.86]Only a hippopotamus will do [01:07.52] [01:08.07]No crocodiles no rhinoceroses [01:12.38]I only like hippopotamuses [01:16.60]And hippopotamuses like me too [01:20.24] [01:29.29]Mom says the hippo would eat me up [01:32.29]But then [01:33.36]Teacher says a hippo is a vegeterian [01:36.92] [01:45.95]There's lots of room for [01:46.98]Him in our two-car garage [01:50.06]I'd feed him there and wash him there [01:52.06]And give him his massage [01:53.93]I can see me now on Christmas morning [01:58.77]Creeping down the stairs [02:02.45]Oh what joy and what surprise [02:04.45]When I open up my eyes [02:06.39]To see a hippo hero standing there [02:11.01]I want a hippopotamus for Christmas [02:14.90] [02:15.42]Only a hippopotamus will do [02:18.71] [02:19.74]No crocodiles or rhinoceroseses [02:23.87]I only like hippopotamuseses [02:28.14]And hippopotamuses like me too