[Chorus 1]
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 folks’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 sidelights winkin’ and blinkin’
Ain’t no finer rig, I’m a-thinkin’.
You c’n keep your rig if you’re thinkin’
That I’d keer to swap
Fer that shiny little surrey with the fringe on the top.

[Chorus 2] All the world will 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 for leather.
Cats and dogs will dance in the heather.
Birds and frogs will sing all together and the toads will hop.
The wind will whistle as we rattle along.
The cows will moo in the clover.
The river will ripple out a whispered song,
And whisper it over and over.
Don’t you wish it’d go on forever?
Don’t you wish it’d go on forever?
Don’t you wish it’d go on forever?
And it’d never stop
In that shiny little surrey with the fringe on the top.

[Chorus 3] 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 ker-plop.
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 will 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.