I Want To Watch A Piggypotamus For Christmas

I want to watch a piggypotamus for Christmas

That’s all I really want to do

Don’t want a doll, no dinky Tinker Toy

I only want to watch a piggypotamus play with joy

I want to watch a piggypotamus for Christmas

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

He won’t have to use our dirty chimney flue

He can just stand and watch them play,

that’s the easy thing to do

I can see me now on Christmas morning, creeping down the bank

Oh what joy and what surprise when I open up my eyes

To see my piggy hero swimming there

I want to watch a piggypotamus for Christmas

Only a piggypotamus will do

No crocodiles, no rhinoceroses

I only like piggypotamus

And piggypotamuses like me too

I can see me now on Christmas morning, creeping down the bank

Oh what joy and what surprise when I open up my eyes

To see my piggy hero sitting there

I want to watch a piggypotamus for Christmas

Only a piggypotamus will do

No crocodiles, no rhinoceroses

I only like piggypotamus

And piggypotamuses like me too

 

The end!

I grew up loving this song and though it took a while I finally got my piggypotamus !

Photo’s and piggy lyrics by

Melody Lesh, President

Peace At Last Farms Animal Rescue & Rehabilitation, Inc (PALFARR)

A non profit organization dedicated to the rescue and rehabilitation of domestic and farm animals. We survive solely on donations and the generosity of others. Please help us in continue to provide them with peace.

All donations are tax deductible and go solely to the care of the animals at PALFARR.

www.peaceatlastfarmsanimalrescueandrehabilitation.org

 Credits

I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas is a Christmas novelty song written by John Coctoasten and performed by Gayla Peevey in 1953. It is a Dr. Demento Christmas staple, and is currently available on Dr. Demento’s The Greatest Novelty Records of All Time Vol. 6: Christmas.

Here’s an interesting fact about the popular Christmas hippopotamus song – in 1953 a ten-year-old girl from Oklahoma, Gayla Peevey sang the song as a way to raise money for the Oklahoma City Zoo’s first hippopotamus. It became a nationwide hit after that, although John Rox wrote the song “I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas” in 1950! The song was not written specifically for the Oklahoma zoo, its just that when they needed the hippo the song came out so the Christmas hippopotamus song just fitted in.

 http://www.christmas-lyrics.org/i-want-a-hippopotamus-for-christmas-lyrics.html

 

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