I was sittin' by the bank on a stump When I thought I heard me a jump Turned around and sure there he sat He excuse me, buddy, but I've been readin' news And I'm to say that I'm a little You bein' human, well you'd know at.
He said I read this old world's gonna And all on account of a called gold And that's hard for us frogs to Now you're lookin' at me I'm kinda But I live we don't have no money 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 I hadn't been grazin' in no So I figured I'd tell him what I thought 'bout how gold was sold and how was And he'd our world when I explained.
I said it all started a time ago When the people first to reap and sow got all the things they needed right out of the Like how many leaves and how trees Would it take to cover up the And that's how you figured how much a of was worth.
Well then man he how to milk a cow And how to till the with a stone blade And he kept so busy he never had to do you Then he'd take his produce and all that And go into town and trade for silk So his woman she'd look down at the farm.
Well the let out a belly croak Like I'd told him some kind of a And he said I think you're me my man (what me?) I said I know it sounds kinda But the truth of the is I ain't lyin' I I ain't talkin' no bullfrog, you
He said now get upset I'm not you You go ahead, go ahead and continue And I'll be and try to understand He I know about trees and leaves and And milk and and the farmer's But this thing the call supply and
I well I grow cotton and you grow corn And you find dungarees are all worn And me well I got to somethin' to eat You see? So I you some brand new And now you bake me fresh bread Pretty soon we'll shops across the street.
this didn't work, or so we've been told And at that time they didn't about So all agreed they'd measure their goods in that idea had an early endin' 'cause they were eatin' more than spendin' And besides, whoever of keepin' in a vault.
Well folks said was the thing to use To pay for stuff like from to shoes But it weighed too much and it too to spend So round sixteen hundred and ninety Somebody started usin' money And that's the tale, my friend, end to end.
Well I it was a damn good I mean a attempt at communication And I only had me up until the I was ten But the bullfrog right he away Well I could sworn I heard him say Your world is still in the stage, my friend.