The Surrey With The Fringe On Top

James Taylor - The Surrey With The Fringe On Top

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'll 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 an' see how it flutters

When I drive them high-steppin' strutters

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

The wheels are yellow 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 sidelights winkin' and blinkin'

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

You can keep yer rig

If yer thinkin' but I'd care to swap

For that shiny little surrey with the fringe on the top

Now would you say the fringe was made of silk

I 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

I can see the stars getting 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 getting older

Feel a sleepy head near my shoulder

Noddin' droopin' close to my shoulder 'til it falls kerplop

The sun is swimmin' on the rim of the hill

The moon is takin' a header

And just when I'm thinkin' all the earth is still

A lark wakes up in the meadow

Hush you bird my baby's a-sleeping

Maybe got a dream worth a-keepin'

Whoa you team just keep on a-creepin'

At a slow clip clop

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