《The Hippopotamus Song》歌词

[00:00:04] A bold hippopotamus was standing one day

[00:00:08] On the banks of the cool Shalimar

[00:00:12] He gazed at the bottom as he peacefully lay

[00:00:16] By the light of the evening star

[00:00:21] Away on the hilltop sat combing her hair

[00:00:25] His fair hippopotami maid

[00:00:29] The hippopotamus was no ignoramus

[00:00:34] So sang her this sweet serenade

[00:00:40] Mud mud glorious mud

[00:00:44] Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood

[00:00:48] So follow me follow down to the hollow

[00:00:53] And there let me wallow in glorious mud

[00:01:03] The fair hippopotamus he aimed to entice

[00:01:07] From her seat on that hilltop above

[00:01:11] As she hadn't got a ma to give her advice

[00:01:15] Came tiptoeing down to her love

[00:01:21] Like thunder the forest re-echoed the sound

[00:01:25] Of the song that they sang when they met

[00:01:30] His inamorata adjusted her garter

[00:01:35] And lifted her voice in duet

[00:01:40] Mud mud glorious mud

[00:01:44] Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood

[00:01:48] So follow me follow down to the hollow

[00:01:54] And there let me wallow in glorious mud

[00:02:03] Now more hippopotami began to convene

[00:02:07] On the banks of that river so wide

[00:02:11] I wonder now what am I to say of the scene

[00:02:15] That ensued by the Shalimar side

[00:02:19] They dived all at once with an ear splitting sposh

[00:02:24] Then rose to the surface again

[00:02:29] A regular army of hippopotami

[00:02:34] All singing this haunting refrain

[00:02:40] Mud mud glorious mud

[00:02:44] Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood

[00:02:47] So follow me follow down to the hollow

[00:02:53] And there let me wallow in glorious mud