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 sleekest geek 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 that fringe and
see how it flutters
When I drive them high
-steppin' strutters
Nosey folks will peek through the shutters
and their eye s will pop
The wheels are yellow,
the upholstery's brown
The dashboard's genuine leather
With eyes and glass 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 rake I'm a -thinking.
You can keep your rake
if you're thinking that I'd care to swap
for that shiny little surrey
with the fringe on the top.
Would you say the bridge
was made of silk?
I wouldn't have no other kind but silk.
Has it really got a team of
snow white horses?
One's like snow,
the other's more like milk.
So you can tell them apart.
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, help will hather
Cats and dogs will dance in the heather
Birds and frogs will sing all together
And the toads will hop
The wind'll whistle as we rattle along,
the cows'll moo in the clover.
The ribbon 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 it'd never stop
In that shiny little Surrey
with the fringe on the top
You'd sure feel like a queen
settin' up in that carriage
Only she talked so mean to me a while back and,
Ella, I have a good mind not to take her
Ain't said I was go ing.
Ain't asked you.
Where'd you get such a rig at?
I bet he's went and a
rig over to Claremore.
Thinking I'd go with him.
So you know about it.
Spent all his money hiring a rig.
Now he ain't got nobody
to ride in it.
Have to. Did not hire.
Made the whole thing up out
of my head.
What? Made it up? Dashboard and all.
Oh, get off of the place, you!
Aunt Ellard,
make him get himself out of here.
Tell him he lied.
Oh, making up a few purties
ain't again no lord I know of.
Don't you wish there was such a rig,
though?
Then you could go to the play party
and do a hoedown till morning
if you was a -minded.
And then when you was all wore out,
I'd lift you onto the surrey
and jump up alongside of you.
And we'd just pint the horses home.
I can just picture the whole thing.
I can see the stars getting blurry
When we ride back home in the Surrey
Riding slowly home in the Surrey
With the fringe on top
I can feel the day getting older
Feel a sleepy head near my shoulder
Noddin', droopin' close to my shoulder
Till it falls, ka -plop
The sun is swimmin' on the rim of a hill
The moon is takin' a header
An d just as I'm thinkin'
all the earth is still
A lark will wake up in the meadow
Hush, you bird, my baby's a -sleepin'
Maybe got a dream
worth a -keepin'
Whoa, you team, just keep a -creepin'
At a slow clip -clop
Don't you hurry with the sari
with the fringe on the top.