The Surrey With The Fringe On Top 1943 'Oklahoma'

Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK - 13 Jan 2003

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 athinkin'
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!

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 drive back home in the surrey,
Drivin' slowly home in the surrey
with the fringe on top!
I can feel the day gettin' older,
Feel a sleepy head on 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 asleepin'!
Maybe got a dream worth akeepin'
Whoa! you team, and
jist keep acreepin' at a slow clip clop.
Don't you hurry with the surrey
with the fringe on the top!

Soft karaoke
Words
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fr hrn 60
brass 75
flute
bassoon
nyl guit
piano t clef
aco bass
pizz str
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The Surrey With The Fringe On Top 1943 Oklahoma
Music by Richard Rodgers
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
copyright MCMXLIII by Williamson Music Inc. New York
sequence and karaoke by Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK
on Monday 13 January 2003 at 11.12
in association with Doug Grierson
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