Hippopotamus-Flanders And Swann

[ti:Hippopotamus] [ar:Flanders & Swann] [al:Songs About Animals] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Hippopotamus - Flanders And Swann [00:04.78]A bold Hippopotamus was standing one day [00:07.81] [00:08.62]On the banks of the cool Shalimar [00:10.82] [00:12.44]He gazed at the bottom as it peacefully lay [00:15.17] [00:16.01]By the light of the evening star [00:17.83] [00:19.52]Away on a hilltop sat combing her hair [00:22.21] [00:23.12]Was a fair Hippopotami maid; [00:25.21] [00:26.53]The Hippopotamus was no ignoramus [00:29.55] [00:30.58]And sang her this sweet serenade: [00:32.88] [00:35.73]'Mud Mud glorious mud [00:38.76] [00:39.81]Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood [00:42.55] [00:43.45]So follow me follow [00:44.81] [00:45.93]Down to the hollow [00:46.99] [00:48.16]And there let us wallow [00:49.77] [00:50.40]In glorious mud' [00:52.76] [00:56.63]The fair Hippopotama he aimed to entice [00:59.60] [01:00.33]From her seat on that hilltop above [01:02.41] [01:03.83]As she hadn't got a Ma to give her advice [01:06.63] [01:07.40]Came tiptoeing down to her love [01:09.74] [01:12.09]Like thunder the forest re-echoed the sound [01:14.86] [01:15.60]Of the song that they sang when they met [01:17.92] [01:19.03]His inamorata adjusted her garter [01:22.12] [01:23.40]And lifted her voice in duet [01:25.59] [01:28.13]'Mud Mud glorious mud [01:31.28] [01:32.28]Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood [01:34.96] [01:35.65]So follow me follow [01:37.56] [01:38.15]Down to the hollow [01:39.49] [01:40.80]And there let us wallow [01:42.46] [01:43.01]In glorious mud ' [01:45.48] [01:48.59]The bold Hippopotami began to convene [01:51.60] [01:52.19]On the banks of that river so wide [01:54.30] [01:55.86]I wonder now what am I to say of the scene [01:58.67] [01:59.30]That ensued by the Swhalimar side [02:01.39] [02:02.90]They dived all at once with an ear-splitting splosh [02:05.67] [02:07.17]Then rose to the surface again [02:09.20] [02:10.83]A regular army [02:11.83] [02:12.71]Of Hippopotami [02:14.01] [02:15.14]All singing this haunting refrain: [02:18.09] [02:20.67]'Mud Mud glorious mud [02:23.68] [02:24.77]Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood [02:27.71] [02:28.73]So follow me follow [02:30.28] [02:31.23]Down to the hollow [02:32.75] [02:33.82]And there let us wallow [02:35.65] [02:36.48]In glorious mud'