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Artist/Band: John Raitt
Lyrics for Song: The Surrey With The Fringe On Top [From Oklahoma!]
Lyrics for Album: Other Songs - John Raitt



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 through 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 care to swap

Fer that shiny, little surrey with the fringe on the top!



Would y' say the fringe was made a' silk?



Wouldn't have n' other kind but silk.



Has it really got 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 wisht y'd go on forever?

Don't you wisht y'd go on forever?

Don't you wisht y'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 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, 'til 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 just keep a-creepin' at a slow clip clop.

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


Album Lyrics: Other Songs - John Raitt


John Raitt
"Other Songs - John Raitt"


1. Blow High, Blow Low
2. Here's That Rainy Day [From Carnival In Flanders]
3. If Ever I Would Leave You [From Camelot]
4. Oklahoma! (Overture)
5. Once-A-Year Day! [From The Pajama Game]
6. Some Enchanted Evening [From South Pacific]
7. The Highest Judge Of All [From Carousel]
8. The Surrey With The Fringe On Top [From Oklahoma!]
9. Two Shillelagh O'sullivan
10. You Are Love [From Show Boat]