A Great Big World – I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas (Guitar)

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From the album: I'll Be Home For Christmas (2014) Comment for any corrections and please rate
   E
[tab]                          B
Only a hippopotamus will do

   B
I don't want a doll, no dinky Tinkertoy

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

   E
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas

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

    B
He won't have to use our dirty chimney flue

       F#m
Just bring him through the front door

           B
That's the easy thing to do

       E               A
I can see me now on Christmas morning

  E                 A
Creeping down the stairs

          B       
Oh, what joy and what surprise

       E
When I open up my eyes

           E           B
To see my hippo hero standing there

   E                      
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas

                          B
Only a hippopotamus will do

 B
No crocodiles, or rhinoceroseses

F#m          B
I only like hippopotamuseses

     A        B          E
And hippopotamuses like me too
E B F#m B E B
 B
Mom says the hippo would eat me up

          F#m                            
But then teacher says a hippo is a vegetarian

       E               A
I can see me now on Christmas morning

  E                 A
Creeping down the stairs

          B       
Oh, what joy and what surprise

       E
When I open up my eyes

           E           B
To see my hippo hero standing there

   E                      F
I want a hippopotamus, I want a hippopotamus

          F#              G
I want a hip.., I want a hip...

   Ab            A      Bb     B
I really really really want a hippopotamus

   E
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas

                          B
Only a hippopotamus will do

   B
I don't want a doll, no dinky Tinkertoy

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

 E
La la la la la la la la la la

                         B
La la la la la la la la la

 B
No crocodiles, or rhinoceroseses

F#m          B
I only like hippopotamuseses

     A        B          E     A B E
And hippopotamuses like me too

   E
Christmas....!!!