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've ever seen



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 steppen strutters

Nosy pokes will peek through their shutters and their eyes will pop!



The wheels are yellow, the upholstry's brown

The dashboard's genuine leather

With eisenglass curtains you can roll right down

In case there's a change in the weather



Two bright side lights winkin' and blinkin'

Ain't no finer rig I'm a thinkin'

You can keep your rig if you're thinkin that I'd keer to swap

Fer that shiny little surrey with the fringe on the top



Would you say the fringe was made of silk?

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



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 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 river will ripple out a whispered song

And whisper 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 gettin' blurry

When we ride back home in the surrey

Ridin' slowly home on the surrey 

With the fringe on top

I can feel the day gettin' older

Feel a sleepy head near my shoulder

Till it falls kerplop



The sun is swimming on the rim of a hill

The moon is taking a header

And just when I'm thinking 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 and just keep a creepin'

At a slow clip clop

Don't you hurry little surrey

With the fringe on the top