《The Hippopotamus》歌词

[00:00:00] The Hippopotamus - Flanders & Swann/Flanders/Swann

[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 it peacefully lay

[00:00:15] By the light of the evening star

[00:00:19] Away on a hilltop sat combing her hair

[00:00:23] Was a fair Hippopotami maid;

[00:00:26] The Hippopotamus was no ignoramus

[00:00:30] And sang her this sweet serenade:

[00:00:35] 'Mud Mud glorious mud

[00:00:39] Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood

[00:00:43] So follow me follow

[00:00:46] Down to the hollow

[00:00:48] And there let us wallow

[00:00:50] In glorious mud'

[00:00:56] The fair Hippopotama he aimed to entice

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

[00:01:03] As she hadn't got a Ma to give her advice

[00:01:07] Came tiptoeing down to her love

[00:01:12] Like thunder the forest re-echoed the sound

[00:01:15] Of the song that they sang when they met

[00:01:19] His inamorata adjusted her garter

[00:01:23] And lifted her voice in duet in Russian

[00:01:28] Mud Mud glorious mud

[00:01:32] Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood

[00:01:35] So follow me follow

[00:01:38] Down to the hollow

[00:01:40] And there let us wallow

[00:01:43] In glorious mud '

[00:01:48] The bold Hippopotami began to convene

[00:01:52] On the banks of that river so wide

[00:01:55] I wonder now what am I to say of the scene

[00:01:59] That ensued by the Swhalimar side

[00:02:03] They dived all at once with an ear-splitting splosh

[00:02:07] Then rose to the surface again

[00:02:10] A regular army

[00:02:13] Of Hippopotami

[00:02:15] All singing this haunting refrain:

[00:02:20] 'Mud Mud glorious mud

[00:02:25] Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood

[00:02:28] So follow me follow

[00:02:31] Down to the hollow

[00:02:34] And there let us wallow

[00:02:36] In glorious mud'