the surrey with the fringe on top

Marlene Dietrich

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 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 can keep your rig
if you re thinkin at I d keep to swap
Fer that shiny, little surrey with the fringe on the top!

Did you say the fringe was made of silk
Wouldn t have no other kind but silk
Does it really have a team of snow white horses
One s like snow, the others 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 wishty d go on forever?
Don t you wishty d go on forever?
Don t you wishty 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 drive 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!