The Surrey With the Fringe On Top (From "Oklahoma")

The Surrey with the Fringe on Top - Gordon MacRae/Shirkey Jones/Charlotte Greenwood/Jay Flippen

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 ya 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 through their

Shutters and their eyes'll pop

The wheels are yellow the upholstery's brown

The dashboard's genuine leather

With eisinglass 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 imma thinkin'

You can keep your rig

If you're thinkin' that I'd care to swap

For that shiny little surrey with the fringe on the top

Would y' say the fringe was made a' 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'll dance in the heather

Birds and frogs'll sing altogether 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 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

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 just 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 just keep a creepin' at a slow clip clop

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