When I take you out tonight with me

Honey here's the way it's going 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 stepping 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 winking and blinking

Ain't no finer rig I'm a-thinking

You can keep your rig

If you're thinking 'at I'd keep to swap

Fer that shiny little surrey with the fringe on the top

I can see the stars getting blurry

When we drive back home in the surrey

Driving slowly home in the surrey with the fringe on top

I can feel the day getting older

Feel a sleepy head on my shoulder

Nodding drooping close to my shoulder till it falls kerplop

The sun is swimming on the rim of a hill

The moon is taking a header

And jist as I'm thinking all the earth is still

A lark'll wake up in the medder

Hush you bird my baby's a-sleeping

Maybe got a dream worth a-keeping

Whoa you team

And jist keep a-creeping at a slow clip clop

Don't you hurry with the surrey

With the fringe on the top