| When I take you out tonight with me
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| Honey, here’s the way it’s gotta be
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| You will sit behind a team of snow white horses
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| In the slickest rig you’ve ever seen
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| Chicks and ducks and geese better scurry
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| When I take you out in my surrey
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| When I take you out in my surrey with the fringe on top
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| Watch that fringe and see how it flutters
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| When I drive them high steppin' strutters
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| Nosy pokes will peek through the shutters
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| And their eyes will pop
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| The wheels are yellow the upholstery’s brown
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| The dashboard is genuine leather
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| With isinglass windows you can roll right down
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| In case there is a change in weather
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| Two bright sidelights winking and blinking
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| 'Ain't no finer rig I’m-a-thinking
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| You can keep your rig if you’re thinking
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| That I’d care to swap
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| For the shiny little surrey with the fringe on the top
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| The sun is a swimmin' on the rim of a hill
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| The moon is takin' a header
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| And just as I’m thinking all the earth is still
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| A lark’ll wake up in the meadow
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| Hush you bird, my baby is a-sleeping
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| Maybe got a dream worth a-keeping
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| Woah! |
| You team, you just keep a-creeping
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| At a slow clip-clop
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| Don’t you hurry with the surrey with the fringe on the top |