I'd Like To Have An Elephant For Christmas Song Lyrics and Chords
I'd Like To Have An Elephant For Christmas Song Lyrics and Chords by Hank Thompson
I'd Like To Have An Elephant For Christmas
Written and Recorded by Hank Thompson
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I'd like to have an
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elephant for
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Christmas
But
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how you gonna
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get him neath the
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suppose he got
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stuck up in our
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chimney
Then
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everyone would
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blame it all on
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me
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Lots of kids would rather have a
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pony
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I bet that would be lot of
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fun
But I'd like to have an
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elephant for
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Christmas
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Maybe Santa
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you can get me
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one
I'd like to have an
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elephant for
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Christmas
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read about him
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in the nursery
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rhyme
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don't believe he'd
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be a lot of
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trouble
If you
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feed him lots of
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peanuts all the
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time
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Lots of kids are crazy about the
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monkeys
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like to watch 'em play out at the
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zoo
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elephant for
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Christmas
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Santa won't you
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see what you can
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do
I'd like to have an
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elephant for
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Christmas
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promise I'll be
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good all through the
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I'll
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wash my face and
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brush my teeth and
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study hard in school
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If on Christmas day
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my elephant is
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here
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guess that I should ask for a
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puppy
Or a
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kitten in my stocking Christmas
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day
But I'd like to have an
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elephant for
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Christmas
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Maybe Santa
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you can find a
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way
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elephant for
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Christmas
FAQ
Who sang the the song I'd Like To Have An Elephant For Christmas?
- The song I'd Like To Have An Elephant For Christmas was sang by Hank Thompson.
Who is Hank Thompson?
- Henry William Thompson (September 3, 1925 - November 6, 2007) was an American country music singer-songwriter and musician whose career spanned seven decades.
Thompson's musical style, characterized as honky-tonk Western swing, was a mixture of fiddles, electric guitar, and steel guitar that featured his distinctive, smooth baritone vocals.
His backing band, The Brazos Valley Boys, was voted the top Country Western Band for 14 years in a row by Billboard. Thompson pursued a "light" version of the Western swing sound that Bob Wills and others played the primary difference between his music and that of Bob Wills was that Thompson, who used the swing beat and instrumentation to enhance his vocals, discouraged the intense instrumental soloing from his musicians that Wills encouraged however, the "Hank Thompson sound" exceeded Bob Wills in top-40 country hits.
Although not as prominent on the top country charts in later decades, Thompson remained a recording artist and concert draw well into his 80s.
The 2013 game Grand Theft Auto V featured his song "It Don't Hurt Anymore" in the fictional radio show, Rebel Radio.
The 1987 novel Crazy Heart by Thomas Cobb was inspired by Thompson's life, specifically by his practice of picking up a local band to back him when he toured. In 2009, Cobb's novel was turned into a successful film directed by Scott Cooper and starring Jeff Bridges in an Academy Award-winning performance.