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 and see how it flutters

When I drive them high steppin' strutters

Nosy pokes will 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 your rig if you're thinkin' that I'd care to swap

For 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

Al 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 glittin' 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', droppin', close to my shoulder till it fall, kerplop

The sun is swimmin' on the rim of the hill

The moon is takin' a header

And just 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, just keep a creepin' at a slow clip clop

Don't you hurry with a surrey

With the fringe on top