I was by the bank on a hollow stump When I thought I me a bullfrog jump around and sure enough there he sat He said excuse me, buddy, but I've readin' news And I'm to say that I'm a confused You bein' human, you'd know where at.
He said I read where this old gonna And all on account of a think called And that's hard for us frogs to Now you're lookin' at me I'm kinda But where I live we don't no money So we want to be hip to the on land.
Now I I was stoned so I started I mean whoever heard of a bullfrog But then I realized I been grazin' in no So I I'd tell him just what I thought 'bout how was sold and how gold was And he'd our world when I explained.
I said it all started a long ago When the people first to reap and sow They got all the they needed right out of the Like how many leaves and how trees Would it take to up the anatomies And that's how you figured how much a of was worth.
Well man he learned how to milk a cow And how to till the soil with a blade And he kept so busy he had time to do you Then he'd take his produce and all that And go into town and them for silk So his woman she'd look sharp at the farm.
Well the let out a belly croak 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 ain't I I ain't talkin' no bullfrog, you
He said now get upset I'm not you You just go ahead, go ahead and And I'll be quiet and try to He said I know about and leaves and And milk and and the farmer's But what's this thing the 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 So I make you some brand new And now you bake me fresh corn Pretty soon have shops across the street.
Well this didn't work, or so been told And at that time they didn't gold So they all agreed they'd measure goods in that idea had an early endin' 'cause they were eatin' more they spendin' And besides, whoever of keepin' in a vault.
Well folks said gold was the to use To pay for stuff like from ships to But it weighed too and it looked too good to So about sixteen hundred and ninety Somebody started usin' foldin' And that's the tale, my friend, end to end.
I thought it was a damn good I mean a real attempt at And I only had me schoolin' up the I was ten But the right before he hopped Well I could have sworn I him say Your is still in the tadpole stage, my friend.