The Surrey With The Fringe On Top

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The Surrey With The Fringe On Top

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 an' see how it flutters
When I drive them high-steppin' strutters
Nosy pokes will 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 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!

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

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 all 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 you'd never stop?
In that shiny little surrey with the fringe on the top!

I can see the stars gittin' blurry
When we ride back home in the surrey
Ridin' slowly home in the surrey with the fringe on top!
I can see 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, an' jist keep a-creepin'
At a slow clip clop!
Don't you hurry little surrey with the fringe on the top!
On the top! On the top!