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 ever see. Chicks and ducks and geese bid a scurry when I take you out in the surrey, when I take you out in the surrey with a fringe on top. Watch that fringe and see how it flutters when I drive them high-steppin' strutters. Nosy pokes all peek through the shutters and their eyes will pop. The wheels are yellow, the upholstery's brown, the dashboard's genuine leather. With icing glass curtains you can roll right down in case there's a change in the weather. Two broad side lights winking and blinking, ain't no finer rig, I'm a-thinking, you can keep your rig if you're thinking that I'd care to swap for that shiny little surrey with a fringe on the top. Would you say the fringe was made of silk? Oh, 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 a fringe on top. When we hit that road, helpful leather jackets and dogs will dance in the heather. Birds and frogs will sing all together and their toads will pop. 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 I'd never stop in that shiny little surrey with a fringe on the top. It sure feel like a queen sittin' up in that carriage. Oh, only she talked so mean to me a while back, Aunt Ella, I'm a good man not to take it. Ain't said I was goin'. I ain't asked ya. Where'd you get such a rig at? I bet he went and hired a rig over in Claremore thinkin' I'd go with him. So you know about it. Spent all his money hiring a rig and now he ain't got nobody to ride in it. Oh, I have two. And I did not hire it. No, look, I made the whole thing up out of my head. What? Made it up? Dashboard and all. Get off of the place, you! And don't make him get himself out of here tellin' me lies. Hey, hey, hey, hey! Now look out now. I'm makin' up a few purties and again no Lord I know of. Don't you wish there was such a rig though? Then you could go to that play party and do a little hoedown till morning if you was in mind to. And then when you was all wore out, I could lift you up out of that surrey, jump up alongside of you and just point the horses home. I can just picture the whole thing. I can see the stars getting blurry when we ride back home in the surrey riding slowly home in the surrey with a fringe on top. I can feel the day getting older feel the sleepy head near my shoulder nodding, drooping close to my shoulder and my toes go flopping. The sun is swimming on the rim of a hill the moon is taking a hitter and just as I'm thinking all the earth is still all I can wake up in the matter Hush, hush you bird. My baby's sleeping maybe got a dream worth a keeping Whoa, you team in just keep a creeping at a slow clip, clop Don't you hurry with a surrey with a fringe on the top.