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 ya 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
Nosey folks'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 ya can roll right down
In case there's a change in the weather

Two bright sidelight's 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 ya say the fringe was made a' silk?
Wouldn't have no other kind but silk
Has it really got a team of snow white horses?
One's like snow, the others 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'll 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 a-never stop
In that shiny, little surrey with the fringe on the top

I can see the stars gettin' 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, till it falls kerplop

The sun is swimmin' on the rim of a 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 meadow

Hush, you bird, my baby's a-sleepin'
Maybe got a dream worth a-keepin'
Whoa! You team, and just keep a-creepin' at a slow clip clop
Don't you hurry with the surrey with the fringe on the top



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Writer(s): Richard Rodgers, Robin Spielberg, Oscar Hammerstein Ii
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