OKLAHOMA "The Surrey With The Fringe On Top" with lyrics

lyrics here....
When I take you out, tonight, with me,
Honey, here's the way it's goin' to be:
You will set behind a team of snow white horses,
In the slickest gig you ever see!
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 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 sidelight's winkin' and blinkin',
Ain't no finer rig I'm a-thinkin'
You c'n keep your rig if you're thinkin' 'at I'd keer to swap
Fer that shiny, little surrey with the fringe on the top!
Aunt Eller: Would y' say the fringe was made a' silk?
Curly: Wouldn't have n' other kind but silk.
Laurey: Has it really got a team of snow white horses?
Curly: One's like snow, the others more like milk.
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 fer 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 y'd go on forever?
Don't you wisht y'd go on forever?
Don't you wisht y'd go on forever and ud 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,
Ridin' 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, till it falls kerplop!
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'll 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!

Shirley Jones & Gordon MacRae
Oklahoma (1995)
Richard Rodgers Composer
Oscar Hammerstein II Lyricist

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[Hannah Jewett]

This is the way to ask a girl out.

[KGriffin1001]

Gordan MacRae? Swoon....

[lis towns]

He's pretty darn cute.

[Luis Francisco]

Good song to ask a girl .

[CBsDiamond]

Props to the Todd-AO version, this one is the hard one to find! The scene at 24 sec in this video is actually shot facing Curly in the other version. Fun to run the two side by side.

[Jim Stark]

Nat King Cole Live at the Sands 1960 remains the standard

[2ndOfficerCHL]

Even in 19th Century Oklahoma, chicks dig the car.

[MadisynParis]

Hugh Jackman's version was nice, but Gordon Macrae IS Curly. I have never heard a better version than this.

[Tardisius]

Life is good down on the farm untill that creepy Illustrated Man showes up.

[Paulette T]

I LOVE this every time I see it.

[Tommy Burnette]

The way he talks about his wagon reminds me of how rappers talk about their cars.