{"id":12415,"date":"2022-08-24T22:46:20","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T22:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=12415"},"modified":"2025-08-20T15:08:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T15:08:35","slug":"i-want-a-hippopotamus-for-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/i-want-a-hippopotamus-for-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code class=\"yqhFQ\"><\/code><span class=\"y68er\">Gayla Peevey, recorded in 1953; lyrics and music by John Rox <\/span><\/p>\n<pre><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 900;\">I [G] want a hippopotamus for Christmas; Only a hippopotamus will [D] do.   [D7] Don't want a doll, no dinky Tinker Toy; I [A] want a hippopotamus to [D7] play with and enjoy.\r\nI [G] want a hippopotamus for Christmas; I don't think Santa Claus will mind, do [D] you?   He [D7] won't have to use our dirty chimney flue; Just [A] bring him through the front door, that's the [D7] easy thing to [D] do\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">I can [G7] see me now on [C] Christmas morning, [G7] creeping down the [C] stairs.   [D7] Oh what joy and what surprise, [G] when I open up my eyes to [A] see a hippo [D] hero standing [D7] there<\/span><\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 900;\">I [G] want a hippopotamus for Christmas;  Only a hippopotamus will [D] do.  [D7] No crocodiles, no rhinoceroses; [A7] I only like [D7] hippopotamuses [D]  and [A7] hippopotamuses [D7] like me [G] too. \r\n<span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">                 [Interlude]    G G D       G G D<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">[D7] Mom says the hippo would eat me up, but then  [A7] Teacher says a hippo is a [D7] vegeterian [D]<\/span> \r\n<span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">                 [Interlude] G G D G G D <\/span><\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 900;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">There's [D7] lots of room for him in our two-car garage.  [A7] I'd feed him there, and wash him there, and [D7] give him a massage [D] <\/span> \r\n <\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 900;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">I can [G7] see me now on [C] Christmas morning, [G7] creeping down the [C] stairs. [D7] Oh what joy and what surprise, [G] when I open up my eyes to [A] see a hippo [D] hero standing [D7] there<\/span>\r\n \r\nI [G] want a hippopotamus for Christmas; Only a hippopotamus will [D] do. [D7] No crocodiles, no rhinoceroses; [A7] I only like [D7] hippopotamuses [D] and [A7] hippopotamuses [D7] like me [G] too.\r\n<\/span><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gayla Peevey, recorded in 1953; lyrics and music by John Rox I [G] want a hippopotamus for Christmas; Only a hippopotamus will [D] do. [D7] Don&#8217;t want a doll, no dinky Tinker Toy; I [A] want a hippopotamus to [D7] play with and enjoy. I [G] want a hippopotamus for &hellip; <span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/i-want-a-hippopotamus-for-christmas\/\" class=\"more-link\">CLICK TO VIEW SONG<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,11,116,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-christmas","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}