Key: C 🎸 Intro: E B7 E Db When I take you out, tonight, with me Db Ab Db Ab Bb Honey, here's the way it's goin' to be Bb F Bb F G E B7 You will set behind a team of snow white horses E B7 E B7 E In the slickest gig you ever see! 🎸 Verse: C Em Am7 C Chicks and ducks and geese better scurry C Em Am7 C When I take you out in the surrey C Em Am7 C D7 G G7 When I take you out in the surrey with the fringe on top! C Em Am7 C Watch that fringe and see how it flutters C Em Am7 C When I drive them high steppin' strutters. C Em Am7 C D7 G Nosey pokes'll peek thru' their shutters and their eyes will pop!
🎸 Bridge: C7 F The wheels are yeller, the upholstery's brown C7 F The dashboard's genuine leather D7 G With isinglass curtains y' can roll right down A7sus4 D7 Dm G7 In case there's a change in the weather. 🎸 Verse: C Em Am7 C Two bright sidelight's winkin' and blinkin' C Em Am7 C Ain't no finer rig I'm a-thinkin' C Em Am7 C D7 G You can keep your rig if you're thinkin' 'at I'd care to swap G7 C Em F G C Fer that shiny, little surrey with the fringe on the top! 🎸 Refrain: E B7 E Db Did you say the fringe was made of silk Db Ab Db Ab Bb Wouldn't have no other kind but silk Bb F Bb F G E B7 Does it really have a team of snow white horses E B7 E B7 E One's like snow, the others more like milk 🎸 Verse: C Em Am7 C All the world'll fly in a flurry C Em Am7 C When I take you out in the surrey C Em Am7 C D7 G When I take you out in the surrey with the fringe on top! C Em Am7 C When we hit that road, hell fer leather C Em Am7 C Cats and dogs'll dance in the heather C Em Am7 C D7 G Birds and frogs'll sing all together and the toads will hop! C7 F The wind'll whistle as we rattle along C7 F The cows'll moo in the clover D7 G The river will ripple out a whispered song A7sus4 D7 Dm G7 And whisper it over and ov er C Em Am7 C Don't you wishty'd go on forever? C Em Am7 C Don't you wishty'd go on forever? C Em Am7 C D7 G Don't you wishty'd go on forever and you'd never stop G7 F Em F G C In that shiny, little surrey with the fringe on the top! 🎸 Verse: C Em Am7 C I can see the stars gettin' blurry C Em Am7 C When we drive back home in the surrey C Em Am7 C D7 G Drivin' slowly home in the surrey with the fringe on top! C Em Am7 C I can feel the day gettin' older C Em Am7 C Feel a sleepy head on my shoulder C Em Am7 C D7 G Noddin', droopin' close to my shoulder, till it falls kerplop! 🎸 Bridge: C7 F The sun is swimmin' on the rim of a hill C7 F The moon is takin' a header D7 G And jist as I'm thinkin' all the earth is still A7sus4 D7 Dm G7 A lark'll wake up in the medder. 🎸 Outro: C Em Am7 C Hush, you bird, my baby's a-sleepin'! C Em Am7 C Maybe got a dream worth a-keepin' C Em Am7 C D7 G Whoa! you team, and jist keep a-creepin' at a slow clip clop. G7 F Em F G C Don't you hurry with the surrey with the fringe on the top!