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Surrey With The Fringe On Top

from Now's The Time by Tom Lindsay

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lyrics

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 yellow, the upholstery's brown
The dashboard's genuine leather
With isinglass curtains you 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 to 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 … 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 altogether and the toads will hop

The wind'll whistle as we roll 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 wish you’d go on forever
Don't you wish you’d go on forever
Don't you wish you’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 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 ker-plop

The sun is swimmin' on the brim of a hill
The moon is takin' a header
And just as I'm thinkin' all the earth is still
A lark'll wake up in the meadow
A lark'll wake up in the meadow

Hush you bird my baby’s a-sleepin'
Maybe got a dream worth a-keepin'
Whoa you team, just keep a-creepin' at a slow clip-clop
Don't you hurry with the surrey
Don't you hurry with the surrey
Don't you hurry with the surrey with the fringe on the top

credits

from Now's The Time, released November 29, 2019
Tom Lindsay - piano, vocals
Tom Moore - upright bass
Ric Yarborough - drums

Music by Richard Rodgers
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II

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Tom Lindsay Coventry, UK

Pianist, singer, bandleader and songwriter, combining exciting musicianship with an easygoing charm

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