04

When I take you out tonight with me,
Honey, here’s the way it’s goin’ to be:
You will set behind a team of snow white horses
In the slickest gig you 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 the fringe and see how it flutters
When I drive them high steppin’ strutters,
Nosey pokes will peek thru their shutters and their eyes will 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 side lights winking and blinking,
Ain’t no finer rig, I’m a thinking,
You can keep your rig if you thinking that I’d keer to swap
Fer that shiny little surrey with the fringe on the top!

All the world will 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 will sing all together and the toads will hop!

The wind will whistle as we rattle along.
The cows will 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 getting blurry
When we drive back home in the surrey,
Driving slowly home in the surrey with the fringe on top!
I can feel the day getting older,
Feel a sleepy head on 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 jist as I’m thinkin’ all the earth is still,
A lark will make up in the medder.

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 with the surrey with the fringe on the top!