There once was a hippo who wanted to fly -- <br />Fly-hi-dee, try-hi-dee, my-hi-dee-ho. <br />So he sewed him some wings that could flap through the sky -- <br />Sky-hi-dee, fly-hi-dee, why-hi-dee-go. <br />He climbed to the top of a mountain of snow -- <br />Snow-hi-dee, slow-hi-dee, oh-hi-dee-hoo. <br />With the clouds high above and the sea down below -- <br />Where-hi-dee, there-hi-dee, scare-hi-dee-boo. <br />(Happy ending) <br />And he flipped and he flapped and he bellowed so loud -- <br />Now-hi-dee, loud-hi-dee, proud-hi-dee-poop. <br />And he sailed like an eagle, off into the clouds -- <br />High-hi-dee, fly-hi-dee, bye-hi-dee-boop. <br />(Unhappy ending) <br />And he leaped like a frog and he fell like a stone -- <br />Stone-hi-dee, lone-hi-dee, own-hi-dee-flop. <br />And he crashed and he drowned and broke all his bones -- <br />Bones-hi-dee, moans-hi-dee, groans-hi-dee-glop. <br />(Chicken ending) <br />He looked up at the sky and looked down at the sea -- <br />Sea-hi-dee, free-hi-dee, whee-hi-dee-way. <br />And he turned and went home and had cookies and tea -- <br />That's hi-dee, all hi-dee, I have to say.<br /><br />Sheldon Allan Silverstein<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/hippo-s-hope/
