I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas - LeAnn Rimes

　　I want a hippopotamus for Christmas

　　Only a hippopotamus will do

　　Don't want a doll

　　No dinky tinker toys

　　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 a 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

　　Mom says a hippo would eat me up but then

　　Teacher says a hippo is a vegetarian

　　(Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way)

　　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

　　And see a hippo hero standing there

　　I want a hippopotamus for Christmas

　　Only a hippopotamus will do

　　No crocodiles

　　Or rhinoceroses-es

　　I only like hippopotamuses-es

　　And hippopotamuses like me too