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Song Parodies -> "Childhood hippo"
Original Song Title:
"Superhero"
Original Performer:
Unknown Brain
Parody Song Title:
"Childhood hippo"
Parody Written by:
Peter Andersson a.k.a K1chyd
The Lyrics
The song "I want a hippopotamus for Christmas" was recorded by Gayla Peevey back in 1953. For the purpose of this parody (set in 2018) let us imagine that back then (65 years ago) she actually got one!
A YouTube version of the original song can currently be found here.
A YouTube version of the original song can currently be found here.
Old Yules, they're gone
When I was up before the sun
The stairs, I crept
The socks, they used to bring me fun
More than one
I got the ordinary dolls
Until my seventh Yule, and stuff for boys
Tinkertoys
Until I woke that day
Dad'd unwind
He won the sweepstakes
Hence our life would quake
The bank we'd break
Yule was great!
Was no mistake
That I got my childhood hippo
Childhood hippo
Cos I'd wished for one real hippo
One real hippo
One real hippo
And this hippo
Grew up, most days
Ate a shitload fresh cut hay
I'd say
Two car garage
I feed him there, he got massage
'deed he'd
I wasn't giving a shit
In my juveniles
He'd eat me up like a crocodile
My childhood hippo
Not vegan hippo
Now I long my childhood hippo
Childhood hippo
Childhood hippo
Childhood hippo
Give me back my childhood hippo!
When I was up before the sun
The stairs, I crept
The socks, they used to bring me fun
More than one
I got the ordinary dolls
Until my seventh Yule, and stuff for boys
Tinkertoys
Until I woke that day
Dad'd unwind
He won the sweepstakes
Hence our life would quake
The bank we'd break
Yule was great!
Was no mistake
That I got my childhood hippo
Childhood hippo
Cos I'd wished for one real hippo
One real hippo
One real hippo
And this hippo
Grew up, most days
Ate a shitload fresh cut hay
I'd say
Two car garage
I feed him there, he got massage
'deed he'd
I wasn't giving a shit
In my juveniles
He'd eat me up like a crocodile
My childhood hippo
Not vegan hippo
Now I long my childhood hippo
Childhood hippo
Childhood hippo
Childhood hippo
Give me back my childhood hippo!
© Peter Andersson.
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But teacher says a hippo is a vegetarian so don’t worry too much about him gobbling you up. Great take on this Christmas classic!
A hippo is certainly loads better than socks (?!?). Security code HPH. 555
Focus was on getting in as many key words as possible from IWAHFC (stairs, crept, doll, tinkertoys, crocodile, vegetarian, two door garage, massage, etc). The passage with socks (intended to be understood as Christmas socks) is a bit strained, but anyone not familiar with IWAHFC will be lost pretty much even before that - so I ran with what I could get in there.
@Peter, wow, now I see...very loaded, very -meta!
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