I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas - It's a Cover Up

[00:00.0]I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas - It's a Cover Up
[00:08.31]I want a hippopotamus for christmas
[00:13.05]Only a hippopotamus will do
[00:17.25]Don't want a dog
[00:19.19]No inky dinker toy
[00:21.4]I want a hippopotamus to play with and enjoy
[00:25.35]I want a hippopotamus for christmas
[00:29.9]I don't think santa claus will mind do you
[00:34.15]He won't have to use our dirty chimney flue
[00:38.41]Just bring him through the front door
[00:40.38]That's the easy thing to do
[00:42.27]I can see me now on christmas morning
[00:47.16]Creeping down the stairs
[00:50.73]Oh what joy and what surprise
[00:52.76]When i open up my eyes
[00:54.76]To see a hippo hero standing there
[00:59.54]I want a hippopotamus for christmas
[01:03.87]Only a hippopotamus will do
[01:08.05]No crocodiles no rhinoceroses
[01:12.13]I only like hippopotamuses
[01:16.42]And hippopotamuses like me too
[01:29.3]Mom says the hippo would eat me up
[01:32.09]But then
[01:33.22]Teacher says a hippo is a vegeterian
[01:45.740005]There's lots of room for
[01:46.94]Him in our two car garage
[01:49.869995]I'd feed him there and wash him there
[01:52.14]And give him his massage
[01:53.95]I can see me now on christmas morning
[01:58.61]Creeping down the stairs
[02:02.19]Oh what joy and what surprise
[02:04.29]When i open up my eyes
[02:06.29]To see a hippo hero standing there
[02:11.02]I want a hippopotamus for christmas
[02:15.44]Only a hippopotamus will do
[02:19.65]No crocodiles or rhinoceroseses
[02:23.83]I only like hippopotamuseses
[02:27.97]And hippopotamuses like me too