Do you ever want a hippo for Christmas?  I do, I want a baby one so badly.

How about this version by the marvelous "Dusty Springfield"??  Hope you enjoy this one as well!

  This is definitely one of my all time favorite songs.
 
Round, like a circle in a spiral
Like a wheel within a wheel.
Never ending or beginning, 
On an ever spinning wheel
Like a snowball down a mountain
Or a carnival balloon
Like a carousel that's turning
Running rings around the moon

Like a clock whose hands are sweeping
Past the minutes of its face
And the world is like an apple
Whirling silently in space
Like the circles that you find
In the windmills of your mind

Like a tunnel that you follow 
To a tunnel of its own
Down a hollow to a cavern
Where the sun has never shone
Like a door that keeps revolving
In a half forgotten dream
Or the ripples from a pebble 
Someone tosses in a stream.

Like a clock whose hands are sweeping
Past the minutes of its face
And the world is like an apple
Whirling silently in space
Like the circles that you find
In the windmills of your mind

Keys that jingle in your pocket
Words that jangle in your head
Why did summer go so quickly 
Was it something that you said
Lovers walk along the shore, 
Leave their footprints in the sand
Was the sound of distant drumming 
Just the fingers of your hand

Pictures hanging in a hallway
And a fragment of this song
Half remembered names and faces 
But to whom do they belong
When you knew that it was over
Were you suddenly aware
That the autumn leaves were turning
To the color of her hair

Like a circle in a spiral
Like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending or beginning, 
On an ever spinning wheel
As the images unwind
Like the circle that you find
In the windmills of your mind

Pictures hanging in a hallway
And the fragment of this song
Half remembered names and faces 
But to whom do they belong
When you knew that it was over
Were you suddenly aware
That the autumn leaves were turning
To the color of her hair

Like a circle in a spiral
Like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending or beginning, 
On an ever spinning wheel
As the images unwind
Like the circles that you find
In the windmills of your mind
 

" Windmills of Your Mind "
written by " Michel Legrand and Marilyn and Alan Bergman"
 
NOTE:  This song has been sung many times by different artists, it is a soundtrack from the movie "The Thomas Crown Affair".  Noel Harrsion is the original singer in the original film in 1968, although the film was made again in 1999 and this time it was performed by Sting.