Gordon MacRae – The Surrey With the Fringe on Top Chords

Chicks and ducks and geese better scurry
When I take ya out in the surrey
When I take ya 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’ll pop

The wheels are yellow, 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 can keep your rig if you’re thinkin’
That I’d care t’ swap
For that shiny little surrey
With the fringe on the top

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 for 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 it’d go on forever?
Don’t you wisht it’d go on forever?
Don’t you wisht it’d go on forever,
(And it’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
Riding 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 just as I’m thinkin’ all the earth is still
A lark wakes up in the meader

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 clipclop

Don’t you hurry with the surrey
With the fringe on the top