Biography:
Gayla Peevey (born 1943) is perhaps best known for her song, I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas (Columbia, 1953). A child star from Oklahoma City, she was 10 years old when she recorded the novelty song written by John Rox in 1950.
The Oklahoma City Zoo capitalized upon the popularity of the song in 1953 through a fund raising campaign to "buy a hippo for Gayla" in order to bring a hippo to the zoo. (They had no hippopotamus at the time.) The song raised $3,000.
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G Em G
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
G Em D
Only a hippopotamus will do
D7 D
Don't want a doll no dinkey tinker toy
A D D7
I want a hippopotamus to play with and enjoy
G Em G
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
G Em D
I don't think Santa Claus will mind do you
D7 D
He won't have to use a dirty chimney flue
A
Just bring him through the front door
D D7
That's the easy thing to do
G7 C
I can see me now on Christmas morning
G7 C
Creeping down the stairs
D
Oh what joy what surprise
G
When I open up my eyes
A7 D D7
To see a hippo hero standing there
G Em G
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
G Em D
Only a hippopotamus will do
D7 D
No crocodiles no rhinosauruses
A D
I only likes hippopotamuses
A D G
And hippopotamuses like me too
D7 D
Mom says a hippo would eat me up but then
A D7
Teacher says a hippo is a vegetarian
D7 D
There's lots of room for him in our two-car garage
A A7 D7
I'd feed him there and wash him there and give him his massage
G7 C
I can see me now on Christmas morning
G7 C
Creeping down the stairs
D D7
Oh what joy what surprise
G
When I open up my eyes
A7 D D7
To see a hippo hero standing there
G Em G
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
G Em D
Only a hippopotamus will do
D7 D
No crocodiles no rhinosauruses
A D
I only likes hippopotamuses
A D G
And hippopotamuses like me too
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