Key: Ab major•
Verse 1
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Now the bold
Hippopotamus
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By the banks of the cool Shalimar
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He gazed at the bottom as it peacefully lay
While high on a hilltop sat combing her hair
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His fair Hippopotami maid
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This Hippopotamus was no ignoramus
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And sang her this sweet serenade
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Mud, mud, glorious mud
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There's nothing quite like it
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And there let us wallow in
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glori ous mud.
Now the fair hippopotama
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From her seat on the hilltop above.
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As she had not got a ma
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She came tiptoeing down to her love.
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Like thunder, the forestry echoed the sound
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of the song that they sang as they met.
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and lifted her voice in duet.
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Mud, mud, glorious mud,
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there's nothing quite like it
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So follow me, follow, down to the hollow,
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and there let us wallow in
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glori ous mud.
Then more hippopotami
began to convene,
by the banks of that river so wide.
Now, I wonder what am I to say of the scene,
that ensued by the Shalimar side.
They dived all at once
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with an ear -splitting splosh
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Mud, mud, glorious mud
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There's nothing quite like it
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down to the hollow
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And there let us wallow in
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glori ous mud
Outro 1
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TunerE A D G B E
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