I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas (Remastered)
Recorded by Gayla Peevey
Album: Single (1963)

(Non Capo)

(Intro.)
|(G) / / (G#)|(Am) - - - |(G)(F#)(Em)(D)|(G)(D)(G)

(Chorus)
I (G)want a (F#)hippo-(Em)pota(D)mus for (G)Christmas (F#)(Em)(D)
(G)Only a (F#)hippo-(Em)pota-(D)mus will (Am)do
(Am)Don't want a doll, no dinky Tinker Toy
I (Am)want a hippopotamus to play with and en-(D)joy

(Chorus)
I (G)want a hippopotamus for Christmas
I (G)don't think Santa Claus will mind, do (D)you?
He (Am)won't have to use our dirty chimney flue
Just (Am)bring him through the front door, that's the easy thing to (D)do
 
(Verse)
I can (G)see me now on (C)Christmas morning
(D)Creeping down the (C)stairs
Oh, what (D)joy and what surprise, when I (G)open up my eyes
To see a (Am)hippo hero (D)standing there
 
(Chorus)
I (G)want a hippopotamus for Christmas
(G)Only a hippopotamus will (Am)do
(Am)No crocodiles, no rhinoceroses
I only like (D)hippopotamuses
And (Am)hippopota-(D)muses like me (G)too
 
(Interlude)
|(G) / / / |(G) / / / |(G)(F#)(Em)(D)|(C) / / / |
(Am)Mom says the hippo would eat me up, but then
(Am)Teacher says a hippo is a vegeteri-(D)an
|(G) / / / |(G) / / / |(G)(F#)(Em)(D)|(C) / / / |
 

There's (Am)lots of room for him in our two-car garage
I'd (Am)feed him there and wash him there and give him his mas-(D)sage
 
(Verse)
I can (G)see me now on (C)Christmas morning
(D)Creeping down the (C)stairs
Oh, what (D)joy and what surprise, when I (G)open up my eyes
To see a (Am)hippo hero (D)standing there
 
(Outro.)
I (G)want a hippopotamus for Christmas
(G)Only a hippopotamus will (D)do
(Am)No crocodiles, no rhinoceroseses
(Am)I only like (D)hippopotamuseses
And (Am)hippopota-(D)muses like me (G)too / / / |(G) - - - - -