Today is Christmas Eve! For reasons I don’t 100 percent understand, this is a much bigger day for Italians than Actual Christmas Day, what with the Feast of Seven Fishes and letting Dad pretend we’ll all definitely go to midnight mass this year, right up until he falls asleep at 11pm.
Also for reasons I don’t 100 percent understand, my people are very, very big on novelty songs in general and Christmas novelty songs in particular. So you get an extra present these year in the form of people doing TikTok dances to the classic Lou Monte jam, “Dominick the Italian Christmas Donkey.”
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I am also very into this tap dance situation, although I’m never going to complain about my dance recital outfits again.
And always remember — don’t bring sprinkle cookies. Bring pignoli cookies.
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Here. enjoy :-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57vrqCENNPc
And then there is this. Imagine a hippo standing around the manger.
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
I don't want a doll, no dinky Tinkertoy
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 up my eyes
To see my hippo hero standing there
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
No crocodiles, or rhinoceroseses
I only like hippopotamuseses
And hippopotamuses like me too
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
A hippopotamus is all I want
Mom says the hippo would eat me up
But then teacher says a hippo is a vegetarian
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
The kind I saw this summer at the zoo
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 up my eyes
To see my hippo hero standing there
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
No crocodiles, or rhinoceroseses
I only like hippopotamuses
And hippopotamuses like me too
Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: John Rox
I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas (Hippo the Hero) lyrics © Folkways Music Publishers Inc.