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Surrey With The Fringe On Top

Words and Music by Rogers & Hammerstein - 1943

Verse:
G               D7	G                D7	G	-
-                B7	E                 B7	Db	-
-               Ab7	Db             Ab7	Bb	Cm7            F7
G               D7	G                D7	G	-
Chorus:
G            Gmaj7	G6              G	Gmaj7	G6
G            Gmaj7	G6              G	Em7            A9	D7
G            Gmaj7	G6              G	Gmaj7	G6
G            Gmaj7	G6              G	Em7            A7	Am7             D7
G7	C	G7	C
A7	D	Em7            A7	Am7             D7
G            Gmaj7	G6              G	Gmaj7	G6
G            Gmaj7	G6              G	Am           Bdim	Am
G            Gmaj7	Am7           D7	G	-        (to chorus)

8-beat intro.  Play 4-beats for each cell, reading from left to right.

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Verse:

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!

 

Chorus:

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 can keep your rig if you're thinkin' 'at I'd keep to swap
For that shiny little surrey with the fringe on the top.

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Performer Links:

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Listen to Larry Kennedy perform "Surrey With The Fringe On Top" (mp3)

Recorded at 39 Main Restaurant in Tiburon, CA - 1975

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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

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email: jbott@ix.netcom.com