Al Stewart - Hipposong lyrics

I was surrounded by a large hippopotamus And nine of its friends who declared quite a lot of us Are feeling rather blue And we don't know what to do I turned away but the large hippopotamus Said that his pit of despair appeared bottomless Yet hippopotami Are not supposed to cry I said "My, my Other people's problems do get tedious by and by My, my You can never solve them no matter how hard you try." This brought a tear from the large hippopotamus Who said in a voice that was growing monotonous You cannot get the sense Of how it feels to be immense The sleek and the slim make fun of a lot of us And creatures who fly through the air sit on top of us Even in the pool We are faced with ridicule I said "My, my Other people's problems do get tedious by and by My, my You can never solve them no matter how hard you try." I came back as a large hippopotamus