00100	THE HIPPOPOTAMUS SONG
00200	
00300	by Flanders and Swan
00400	
00500	
00600	A bold hippopotamus was standing one day
00700	On the banks of the cool Shalimar
00800	He gazed at the bottom as it peacefully lay
00900	By the light of the evening star
01000	
01100	Away on the hilltop sat combing her hair
01200	His fair hippopotama mate
01300	The hippopotamus was no ignoramus
01400	And sang her this sweet serenade
01500	
01600	Chorus:
01700	Mud, mud, glorious mud,
01800	Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood.
01900	So follow me, follow - down to the hollow
02000	And there let us wallow in glorious mud.
02100	
02200	The fair hippopotama he aimed to entice
02300	From her seat on the hilltop above
02400	As she hadn't got a ma to give her advice
02500	Came tiptoeing down to her love
02600	
02700	Like thunder the forest re-echoed the sound
02800	Of the song that they sang as they met
02900	His inamorata adjusted her garter
03000	And lifted her voice in duet
03100	
03200	Chorus
03300	
03400	Now more hippopotami began to convene
03500	On the banks of that river so wide.
03600	I wonder now what am I to say of the scene
03700	That ensued by the Shalimar side?
03800	
03900	They dived all at once with an earsplitting splosh,
04000	Then rose to the surface again,
04100	A regular army of hippopotami
04200	All singing this haunting refrain:
04300	
04400	Chorus