I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas

I Want a Hippopotamus For Christmas is a novelty Christmas song by Gayla Peevey where the narrator is a little girl who wants a pet hippopotamus for Christmas.

Lyrics
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas.

Only a hippopotamus will do.

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 Claus will mind, do you?

He won't have to use a dirty chimney flue.

Just bring him through the front door, that's the easy thing to do.

I can see me now on Christmas morning, creeping down the stairs.

Oh, what joy and what surprise when I open up my eyes.

And see a hippo hero standing there.

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas.

Only a hippopotamus will do.

No crocodiles, no rhinoceruses.

I only like hippopotamuses.

And hippopotamuses like me too.

Mom says a hippo would eat me up, but then, Teacher says a hippo is a vegetarian.

There's lots of room for him in our two-car garage. I'd feed him there and wash him there and give him his massage.

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas.

Only a hippopotamus will do.

No crocodiles or rhinoceruses.

I only like hippopotamuses.

And hippopotamuses like me too!