This song is performed on Fran Avni's Little Ears: 27 Songs For Reading Readiness.

CHORUS:
Hippopotamus is just one word, but so is hat - (HAT!)
Rhinoceros is just one word, and so is rat - (RAT!)
Brontosaurus is one word, and so is bat - (BAT!)
Caterpillar is one word, too, and so is cat - (CAT!)

Some words are short and some are long
What do you think of that?
Some words are short and some are long
What do you think of that?

It may be absurd that the size of a word
Is not the size of the thing it names
Some are little, some are big
The word piglet ís longer than the word for pig
But a pig is so much bigger than a piglet.

CHORUS

It may be absurd that the size of a word
Is not the size of the thing it names
Some words are big and some are small
The word walnut's longer than the word for wall
But a wall is bigger than a walnut.

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