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 sur
rey 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'll pop
The wheels are yeller,
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
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'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 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 sur
rey 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, and jist keep a creepin'
At a slow clip clop
Don't you hurry little surrey
with the fringe on the top