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.
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