I was sittin' by the bank on a stump When I thought I me a bullfrog jump Turned around and sure enough he sat He said excuse me, buddy, but been your news And I'm to say that I'm a confused You bein' human, you'd know where at.
He said I read where old world's gonna And all on of a think called gold And somethin' hard for us frogs to Now lookin' at me like I'm funny But I live we don't have no money So we to be hip to the happ'nin's on land.
Now I thought I was so I started I whoever heard of a bullfrog talkin' But then I I hadn't been grazin' in no So I I'd tell him just what I thought 'bout how gold was and how gold was And he'd our world when I explained.
I said it all started a long ago When the people first learned to and sow They got all the they needed right out of the Like how many leaves and how trees Would it to cover up the anatomies And that's how you how much a suit of was worth.
Well then man he how to milk a cow And how to till the soil with a blade And he kept so he never had time to do you Then he'd take his produce and all milk And go into and trade them for silk So his she'd look sharp down at the farm.
Well the bullfrog let out a croak Like I'd him some kind of a joke And he said I think jivin' me my man (what me?) I said I know it kinda mystifyin' But the of the matter is I ain't lyin' I mean I ain't no bullfrog, you
He said now don't get I'm not you You just go ahead, go and continue And I'll be and try to understand He said I know about and leaves and And and silk and the farmer's But what's this the call supply and
I said well I grow and you grow corn And you find your dungarees are all And me well I got to have to eat You see? So I you some brand new And now you bake me fresh bread Pretty soon have shops across the street.
Well this didn't work, or so been told And at that time they know gold So they all agreed measure their goods in that idea had an early endin' 'cause they were eatin' more they were And besides, whoever of keepin' in a vault.
Well folks gold was the thing to use To pay for stuff from ships to shoes But it weighed too and it looked too good to So round sixteen hundred and ninety Somebody started foldin' money And that's the tale, my friend, end to end.
Well I thought it was a explanation I mean a 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 world is still in the tadpole stage, my friend.