Hippo for Christmas

from Holly Head by Kate Rusby

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lyrics

Hippo for Christmas
John Rox

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
I don’t want a doll, no dinky tinker toy
I want a hippopotamus to play with
and enjoy.

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
I don’t think Santa Clause will mind do you
He won’t have to use our dirty chimney flue
Just bring it through the from door that’s
the easy thing to do.

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
No crocodiles or rhinoceroses
I only like hippopotamuses
And hippopotamuses like me too.

Mum says a hippo would eat me up,
but then
Teacher says the hippo is a vegetarian.
Theres lots of room for him in our two
car garage
I’d feed him there and wash him there and
give him a massage.

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
I don’t want a doll, no dinky tinker toy
I want a hippopotamus to play with
and enjoy.
I can see me now on Christmas morning
Creeping down the stairs,
Oh what joy and what delight
When I open up my eyes
To see a hippo hero standing there.

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
No crocodiles or rhinoceroseses
I only like hippopotamuseses
And hippopotamuses like me too.

Hippopotamuses not rhinoceroses
Hippopotamuses like me too

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from Holly Head, released September 9, 2022

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Kate Rusby England, UK

Forever proud to call herself a folk singer, Kate celebrates her own 50 yrs with her 'Established 1973' tours.

2022 marked 30 yrs as a professional musician with the album 30:Happy Returns

Hand Me Down (2020) was her highest-charting album.

Named in the Top 10 Folk Voices of the Century and a Mercury Prize in 1999

Yorkshire roots the carols in her Christmas tour.
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