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