"I WANT A HIPPOPOTAMUS FOR CHRISTMAS"

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Greetings and Salutations to All my Kith and Kin and All the Ships in Outer Space:

I love this song!

Also, I just now learned that this is the MOST requested Christmas song at radio station WMJY-FM 93.7 in Biloxi, Mississippi.

All the local schoolkids are crazy about it.

For the best effect, please be sure to enjoy watching, in "FULL SCREEN" mode, this classic video recording of, "I WANT A HIPPOPOTAMUS FOR CHRISTMAS", performed in 1953 by ten (10) year old Gayla Rienette Peevey, of Ponca City, Oklahoma.



This video recording was posted at the YOU TUBE web site on Monday 30 November 2009 by the JAN'S LOVE SHACK channel.
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Here's the lyrics, so you and your little ones can sing along!

"I WANT A HIPPOPOTAMUS FOR CHRISTMAS"

Composed By: JOHN ROX

Performed By: GAYLA RIENETTE PEEVEY

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 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
To see a hippo hero standing there!

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas.
Only a hippopotamus will do.
No crocodiles, no rhinoceroses.
I only like hippopotamuses,
And hippopotamuses like me too!

(Short Music Interlude)

Mom says the hippo
Would eat me up.
But then, Teacher says
A hippo is a vegeterian.

(Short Music Interlude)

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 can see me now on Christmas morning,
Creeping down the stairs.
Oh, what joy and what surprise
When I open up my eyes
To see a hippo hero standing there!

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas.
Only a hippopotamus will do.
No crocodiles or rhinoceroseses.
I only like hippopotamuseses,
And hippopotamuses like me too!
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Thank you.

John Robert Mallernee 

Armed Forces Retirement Home 

1800 Beach Drive, Unit 311 

Gulfport, Mississippi  39507

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