I absolutely love this poem.....first heard it on an episode of E.R when a doctor recited this to her baby over the phone to before saying good night.
This is longer version of it.
One hippo all alone
calls two hippos on the phone
three hippos at the door
bring along another four
five hippos come overdressed
six hippos show up with a guest
seven hippos arrive in a sack
eight hippos sneak in the back
nine hippos come to work
ALL THE HIPPOS GO BESERK!
All through the hippo night
hippos play with great delight
but at the hippos break of day
the hippos all must go away
nine hippos and a beast
join eight hippos riding east
while seven hippos moving west
leave six hippos quite distressed
five hippos then set forth
with four hippos headed north
three hippos say good day
the last two hippos go their way
one hippo alone once more
misses the other forty four.
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