The Surrey With the Fringe on Top

Lyrics

[CURLY] 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 [AUNT ELLER] Lands! [CURLY] 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, see how it flutters When I drive them high-steppin' strutters Nosy pokes will peek'll 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 they'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 [AUNT ELLER] Would you say the fringe was made of silk? [CURLY] Wouldn't have no other kind but silk [LAUREY] Has it really got a team of snow-white horses? [CURLY] One's like the snow, the other's more like milk [AUNT ELLER, spoken] So you can tell them apart [CURLY] 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 will dance'll 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 it'd go on forever? Don't you wish it'd go on forever? Don't you wish it'd go on forever? And it'd 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 'Til it falls- 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 Oh hush, you bird, my baby's a sleepin' Maybe's got a dream worth a keepin' Whoa, you team, an' just keep a creepin' At a slow clip clop Don't you hurry with the surrey With the fringe on the top