The Hippopotamus-Flanders & Swann/Flanders/Swann

[ti:The Hippopotamus] [ar:Flanders & Swann] [al:A Drop Of The British] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Hippopotamus - Flanders & Swann/Flanders/Swann [00:04.81]A bold Hippopotamus was standing one day [00:08.20] [00:08.79]On the banks of the cool Shalimar [00:11.27] [00:12.35]He gazed at the bottom as it peacefully lay [00:15.48] [00:15.99]By the light of the evening star [00:18.52] [00:19.51]Away on a hilltop sat combing her hair [00:22.51] [00:23.13]Was a fair Hippopotami maid; [00:25.44] [00:26.40]The Hippopotamus was no ignoramus [00:29.98] [00:30.71]And sang her this sweet serenade: [00:33.66] [00:35.73]'Mud Mud glorious mud [00:39.41] [00:39.96]Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood [00:43.50]So follow me follow [00:46.02]Down to the hollow [00:48.26]And there let us wallow [00:50.23]In glorious mud' [00:53.42] [00:56.77]The fair Hippopotama he aimed to entice [01:00.46]From her seat on that hilltop above [01:02.64] [01:03.92]As she hadn't got a Ma to give her advice [01:06.96] [01:07.51]Came tiptoeing down to her love [01:10.33] [01:12.22]Like thunder the forest re-echoed the sound [01:15.82]Of the song that they sang when they met [01:18.23] [01:19.12]His inamorata adjusted her garter [01:22.80] [01:23.43]And lifted her voice in duet in Russian [01:27.26] [01:28.53]Mud Mud glorious mud [01:31.91] [01:32.44]Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood [01:35.91]So follow me follow [01:38.47]Down to the hollow [01:40.35] [01:40.94]And there let us wallow [01:43.19]In glorious mud ' [01:46.21] [01:48.75]The bold Hippopotami began to convene [01:52.56]On the banks of that river so wide [01:55.01] [01:55.97]I wonder now what am I to say of the scene [01:59.65]That ensued by the Swhalimar side [02:02.05] [02:03.06]They dived all at once with an ear-splitting splosh [02:06.31] [02:07.34]Then rose to the surface again [02:09.70] [02:10.94]A regular army [02:13.00]Of Hippopotami [02:14.75] [02:15.88]All singing this haunting refrain: [02:19.04] [02:20.82]'Mud Mud glorious mud [02:24.47] [02:25.13]Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood [02:28.46] [02:28.98]So follow me follow [02:30.94] [02:31.55]Down to the hollow [02:33.57] [02:34.17]And there let us wallow [02:36.09] [02:36.69]In glorious mud'