Uploaded December 2022 | Updated September 2026, 5 hours ago

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Needs a vocal and a lead part. Worked as a vendor in Kmart, Harts, Hills, Gold Circle back in the '80s so I had to listen to the Blue Light Orchestra XMAS music for 3 months a year. They put the K in Christmas and the C in crap.

Written by John Rox and sang by Gayla Peveey

(almost everywhere I see this it has wrong writer, singer and lyrics)

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
I don't want a doll, or 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 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 my hippo hero standing there

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
No crocodile or rhinoceroses
I only like hippopotamuses
And hippopotamuses like me too, yeah

any instrumental KAZOO the mentaler the better

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

KAZOO or what ever is handy

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

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 my hippo hero standing there

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
No crocodile or rhinoceroses
I only like hippopotamuses
And hippopotamuses like me too, yeah

source @allnurseryrhymes.com/i-want-a-hippopotamus-for-christmas

who the hell is Darren Criss ?