I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas chords by A Great Big World

Chords with lyrics

A augmentedA Great Big World - I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas
From the album: I'll Be Home For Christmas (2014)


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I want a hippopotamus for Christmas

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Only a hippopotamus will do

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I don't want a doll, no dinky Tinkertoy

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I want a hippopotamus to play with and enjoy

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I want a hippopotamus for Christmas

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I don't think Santa Claus will mind, do you?

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He won't have to use our dirty chimney flue

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Just bring him through the front door

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That's the easy thing to do


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I can see me now on Christmas morning

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Creeping down the stairs

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Oh, what joy and what surprise

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When I open up my eyes

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To see my hippo hero standing there


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I want a hippopotamus for Christmas

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Only a hippopotamus will do

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No crocodiles, or rhinoceroseses

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I only like hippopotamuseses

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And hippopotamuses like me too

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Mom says the hippo would eat me up

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But then teacher says a hippo is a vegetarian


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I can see me now on Christmas morning

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Creeping down the stairs

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Oh, what joy and what surprise

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When I open up my eyes

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To see my hippo hero standing there


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I want a hippopotamus, I want a hippopotamus

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I want a hip.., I want a hip...

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I really really really want a hippopotamus


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I want a hippopotamus for Christmas

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Only a hippopotamus will do

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I don't want a doll, no dinky Tinkertoy

  F# minorF#m             BB
I want a hippopotamus to play with and enjoy


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La la la la la la la la la la

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La la la la la la la la la

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No crocodiles, or rhinoceroseses

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I only like hippopotamuseses

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And hippopotamuses like me too

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Christmas....!!!