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I want a hippopotamus for Christmas Only a hippopotamus will do

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Don't want a doll, no dinky tinker toy 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 you

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He won't have to use a dirty chimney flue

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

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

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Oh, what joy and what surprise when I see a hippo

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a hero standing there. I want a hippopotamus for Christmas. Oh, well, hippopotamus will

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do musses, and hippopotamus is like me, too.

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Pick me up a thin teacher says a hippo is a vegetarian.

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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 and give him his massage

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

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

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To see a 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 rhinoceroses

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I only like hippopotamuses

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And hippopotamuses like me too

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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.

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I want a hippopotamus for Christmas. I don't think Santa Claus will mind 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.

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

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Oh, what joy and what surprise when I open up my eyes and see a hippo hero standing there.

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I want a hippopotamus for Christmas. Oh, a hippopotamus will do.

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No crocodiles, no rhinoceroses

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I only like musses

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And hippopotamuses like me too

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But eat me up a thin

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Teacher says a hippo is a vegetarian

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There's lots of room for him

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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

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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 a hippo hero

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Standing there

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I want a hippopotamus

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For Christmas

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Only a hippopotamus will do

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No crocodiles

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Or rhinoceroses

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I only like hippopotamuses

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And hippopotamuses like me too

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I want a hippopotamus for Christmas

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Only a hippopotamus will do

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Dinky dinker toy

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I want a hippopotamus to play with and enjoy. I want a hippopotamus for Christmas. I don't think Santa Claus will mind 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.

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

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Oh, what joy and what surprise when I open up my eyes and see a hippo hero standing there.

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I want a hippopotamus for Christmas.

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Oh, a hippopotamus will do.

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no crocodiles

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no rhinoceroses

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