What can make a hippopotamus smile?
What can make her walk for more than a mile?
Not parties with their paper hats
Nor candies nor cakes that make her fat
That's not what hippos do!

THEY Ooze in the goo without any shoes
they wade in the water 'till their lips turn blue
That's what makes a hippopotamus smile!

What can make a hippopotamus smile?
What can make her walk for more than a mile?
It's not a tune on the old violin
Or listening to the whispering That's not what hippos do!