The Surrey With the Fringe On Top

When I take you out tonight with me

Honey, here's the way it's gonna be

You will set behind a team of snow-white horses

In the slickest gig you'll ever see

Chicks and ducks and geese better scurry

When I take you out in the surrey

When I take you out in the surrey with the fringe on top

Watch that fringe an' see how it flutters

When I drive them high-steppin' strutters

Nosy pokes'll peek through their shutters and their eyes will pop!

The wheels are yellow, the upholstery's brown

The dashboard's genuine leather

With isinglass curtains you can roll right down

In case there's a change in the weather

Two bright sidelights winkin' and blinkin'

Ain't no finer rig I'm a thinkin'

You can keep yer rig if yer thinkin' that I'd care to swap

Fer that shiny little surrey with the fringe on the top

Would you say the fringe was made of silk?

Wouldn't have no other kind but silk!

Has it really got a team of snow-white horses?

One's like snow, the other's more like milk

All the world'll fly in a flurry

When I take you out in the surrey

When I take you out in the surrey with the fringe on top

When we hit that road, hell-for-leather

Cats and dogs will dance in the heather

Birds and frogs'll sing all together and the toads will hop!

The wind'll whistle as we rattle along

The cows'll moo in the clover

The river will ripple out a whispered song

And whisper it over and over

Don't you wish you'd go on forever?

Don't you wish you'd go on forever?

Don't you wish you'd go on forever?

And you'd never stop?

In that shiny little surrey

With the fringe on the top

I can see the stars gittin' blurry

When we ride back home in the surrey

Ridin' slowly home in the surrey with the fringe on top

I can feel the day gettin' older

Feel a sleepy head near my shoulder

Noddin', droopin', close to my shoulder

'Til it falls—kerplop

The sun is swimmin' on the rim of the hill

The moon is takin' a header

And jist as I'm thinkin' all the earth is still

A lark'll wake up in the meader

Hush, you bird, my baby's a sleepin'

Maybe got a dream worth a keepin'

Whoa, you team, an' jist keep a creepin'

At a slow clip clop

Don't you hurry little surrey

With the fringe on the top