Surrey With The Fringe On Top (from "Oklahoma!")

Surrey With The Fringe On Top - Oklahoma Orchestra/Jay Blackman

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 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

Nosy folks'll peek thru' their shutters and their eyes will pop

The wheels are yeller the upholstery's brown

The dashboard's genuine leather

With isinglass curtains y' can roll right down

In case there's a change in the weather

Two bright sidelight's winkin' and blinkin'

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

You c'n keep your rig if you're thinkin' at I'd keer to swap

Fer that shiny little surrey with the fringe on the top

Would you say the fringe is make 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 fer leather

Cats and dogs'll 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 wisht y'd go on forever

Don't you wisht y'd go on forever

Don't you wisht y'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

Drivin' slowly home in the surrey with the fringe on top

I can feel the day gettin' 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'll wake 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