Don Firth wrote:

"If you were a hippo, Mud, Mud, Glorious Mud (Flanders and Swann) might be seriously sentimental. . . . "

Well, maybe... But I don't think any hippo could take the idea of a hippo "maid" combing her long hair very seriously. That might be akin to the human song:

Do your ears hang low?
Do they wobble to and fro?
Can you tie them in a knot
And can you tie them in a bow? Can ya throw 'em over your shoulder
Like a Continental soldier?
Do your ears hang low

And besides, I'm not a hippo, so I wouldn't know ...