When I take you out, tonight, with me

Honey here's the way it's goin' to be

You will set behind a team of snow white horses

In the slickest gig you every 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 the fringe and see how it flutters

When I drive them high steppin' strutters

Nosey pokes will peek thru their shutters and their eyes will pop

The wheels are yeller, the upholstery's brown

The dashboard's genuine leather

With isinglass curtain's you can roll right down in case there's a change in the weather

Two bright sidelights winking and blinking

Ain't no finer rig I'm a thinking

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

Fer that shiny surrey with the fringe on the top!



All 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, 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 will whistle as we rattle along.

The cows will 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 getting blurry

When we drive back home in the surrey

Driving slowly home in the surrey with the fringe on top!

I can feel the day getting older, 

Feel a sleepy head on 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 will make up in the medder

Hush, you bird, my baby's a sleepin' 

Maybe got a dream worth a keepin'

Whoa! you team, and jist keep a creepin' at a slow clip clop

Don't you hurry with the surrey with the fringe on the top!