What can make a hippopotamus Smile?
What can make him walk for more than a mile?
It's not a party with paper hats
Or bags of candy that makes him fat
That's not what Hippos do

They ooze in the gooze without any shoes
They wade in the water til their lips turn blue
That's what hippos do.

Ssshhh (continue in a whispered voice)

What can make a hippopotamus smile?
What can make him walk for more than a mile?
It's not a tune on the ol' violin
Or listening to the whistling wind
That's not what Hippos do.

They ooze in the gooze without any shoes
They wade in the water til their lips turn blue That's what hippos
Yes that's what hippos
Yes that's what hippos DO!