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I want a hippopotamus for Christmas |
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Only a hippopotamus will do |
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I don't want a doll, no dinky Tinkertoy |
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I want a hippopotamus to play with and enjoy |
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I want a hippopotamus for Christmas |
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I don't think Santa Claus will mind, do you? |
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He won't have to use our dirty chimney flue |
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Just bring him through the front door |
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That's the easy thing to do |
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I can see me now on Christmas morning |
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Creeping down the stairs |
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Oh, what joy and what surprise |
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When I open up my eyes |
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To see my hippo hero standing there |
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I want a hippopotamus for Christmas |
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Only a hippopotamus will do |
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No crocodiles, or rhinoceroseses |
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I only like hippopotamuseses |
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And hippopotamuses like me too |
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I want a hippopotamus for Christmas |
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a hippopotamus is all I want |
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Mom says the hippo would eat me up |
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But then teacher says a hippo is a vegetarian |
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I want a hippopotamus for Christmas |
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The kind I saw this summer at the zoo |
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there's lots of room for him in our two car garage |
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I'd feed him there and wash him there |
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And give him his massage |
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I can see me now on Christmas morning |
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Creeping down the stairs |
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Oh, what joy and what surprise |
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When I open up my eyes |
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To see my hippo hero standing there |
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I want a hippopotamus for Christmas |
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Only a hippopotamus will do |
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No kangaroos or ducks or platypuses |
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I only like hippopotamuses |
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And hippopotamuses like me too |
