A Hippo

The spirit of Christmas is beginning to catch up on my sister which is a good thing. She is so bogged down with work and when I asked her last week if she shared my sentiments about the coming festivity, she bluntly said 'No'. Very not like her and so I left it at that.

I was reading last night when I heard some Christmas carols and this song coming from her room. Which is a good sign.

I don't know where she got it but it went like this :-

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
Don't want a doll, no dinky Tinker Toys
I want a hippopotamus to play with and enjoy

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
I don't think Santa Claus will mind, do you?
He won't have to use our dirty chimney flue
Just bring him through the front door, that's the easy thing to do

I can see me now on Christmas morning, creeping down the stairs
Oh, what joy and what surprise when I open my eyes
to see a hippo hero standing there

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
No crocodiles, no rhinoceroses
I only like hippopotamuses
And hippopotamuses like me too

Mom says the hippo would eat me up, but then
Teacher says a hippo is vegetarian
There's lots of room for him in our two-car garage
I'd feed him there and wash him there and give him his massage

I can see me now on Christmas morning, creeping down the stairs
Oh, what joy and what surprise when I open my eyes
to see a hippo hero standing there

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
No crocodiles, no rhinocerouseses
I only like hippopotamuses
And hippopotamuses like me too!!!

Screw Jinggle Bells, White Christmas and all those old shit. This is definitely going to be our theme song this year.