When I take you out
tonight with me
Honey, here's the way
it's gonna be
You will sit 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
Nosey pokes'll peek
through the 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 sidelights
winkin' and blinkin'
Ain't no finer rig
I'm a-thinkin'
You can keep your rig
if you're thinkin' 'at
I'd care to swap
Fer that shiny,
little surrey with the
fringe on the top
Huh, I wouldn't have
no other kind but silk
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 fer 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 wished
you'd go on forever?
Don't you wished
you'd go on forever?
Don't you wished
you'd go on forever
and you'd never stop?
In that shiny,
little surrey with the
fringe on the top
Why, I can just picture
the whole thing
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 jist as I'm thinkin'
all the earth is still
A lark'll wake up
in the medder
Hush, you bird,
my baby's a-sleepin'
Maybe got a dream
worth a-keepin'
Woh you team,
and jist keep a-creepin'
at a slow clip clop
Don't you hurry
with the surrey with
the frin...ge on the top...