The Surrey with the Fringe on Top (Oklahoma)

The Surrey with the Fringe on Top (Oklahoma) - Alfred Drake

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 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 pokes'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 you' 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

I can see the stars gettin' blurry

When we ride back home in the surrey

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

I can feel the day gettin' older

Feel a sleepy head near 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