Thank you, Metchosin--I've been trying to find out who wrote "If You Love a Hippopotamus" ever since I heard it at the Puget Sound Guitar Workshop in 1986! It's one of my daughter's favorite songs. The person who sang it at PSGW (it was one of the members of "Motherlode", but I can't remember who) added this verse, which her daughter wrote:

If your friend the hippo
Is stuck inside the zoo
Just dress her up like a person
And sneak her out with you

Also, we sing the last lines of the last verse, "She'll tiptoe out hippopotamusly and shut the door" with a diminuendo and ritardando (quieter and slower!), followed by a l-o-o-o-n-g pause, then a shouted..."WHAM!!!!" Very effective.

Aloha,
Mark