I was sittin' by the bank on a hollow When I thought I me a bullfrog jump Turned around and enough there he sat He said me, buddy, but I've been readin' news And I'm sorry to say I'm a little You bein' human, well you'd know at.
He I read where this old world's fold And all on of a think called gold And somethin' hard for us frogs to Now you're at me like I'm kinda But where I live we don't have no So we want to be hip to the on land.
Now I I was stoned so I walkin' I mean whoever heard of a talkin' But then I realized I hadn't been in no So I figured I'd tell him just what I how gold was sold and how gold was And understand our world when I explained.
I said it all started a time ago When the people learned to reap and sow They got all the things needed right out of the Like how leaves and how many trees Would it take to up the anatomies And that's how you how much a suit of was worth.
then man he learned how to milk a cow And how to the soil with a stone plow And he kept so busy he had time to do you Then he'd take his and all that milk And go into town and trade for silk So his woman she'd sharp down at the farm.
Well the bullfrog let out a belly I'd told him some kind of a joke And he I think you're jivin' me my man (what me?) I said I know it kinda mystifyin' But the truth of the matter is I lyin' I I ain't talkin' no bullfrog, you
He said now get upset I'm not you You just go ahead, go and continue And be quiet and try to understand He said I know about trees and and And milk and and the farmer's But what's this the call supply and
I said well I grow cotton and you corn And you find dungarees are all worn And me I got to have somethin' to eat You see? So I make you some new And now you me some fresh corn Pretty we'll have shops across the street.
this didn't work, or so we've been told And at that time they didn't gold So they all agreed they'd their in salt Well that had an early endin' 'cause they were eatin' more they were And besides, whoever heard of in a vault.
Well said gold was the thing to use To pay for stuff like ships to shoes But it too much and it looked too good to So round about hundred and ninety Somebody started usin' foldin' And that's the tale, my friend, end to end.
Well I it was a damn explanation I a real attempt at communication And I had me schoolin' up until the I was ten But the bullfrog right he away Well I could have I heard him say Your world is in the tadpole stage, my friend.