The Hippopotamus Song - ian wallace

作曲：Donald Swann/Michael Flanders

A bold hippopotamus was standing one day

On the banks of the cool Shalimar

He gazed at the bottom as it peacefully lay

By the light of the evening star

Away on a hilltop sat combing her hair

His fair hippopotami maid

The hippopotamus was no ignoramus

So sang her this sweet serenade

Mud mud glorious mud

Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood

So follow me follow down to the hollow

And there let us wallow in glorious mud

The fair hippopotamus he aimed to entice

From her seat on that hilltop above

As she hadn't got a ma to give her advice

Came tip toeing down to her love

Like thunder the forest reechoed the sound

Of the song that they sang as they met

His inamorata and adjusted her garter and lifted her voice in duet

Mud mud glorious mud

Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood

So follow me follow down to the hollow

And there let us wallow in glorious mud

Now more hippopotami began to convene

On the banks of that river so wide

I wonder now what am I to say of the scene

That ensued by the Shalimar side

They dived all at once with an ear splitting splosh

Then rose to the surface again

A regular army of hippopot army

All singing this haunting refrain

Not to Charles

Glorious mud

Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood

So follow me follow down to the hollow

And there let us wallow in glorious mud