I was sittin' by the bank on a stump When I thought I heard me a jump Turned around and sure enough he sat He said excuse me, buddy, but been your news And I'm sorry to say I'm a little You human, well you'd know where at.
He said I read where old world's gonna And all on account of a think gold 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 to be hip to the happ'nin's on land.
Now I I was stoned so I started I mean heard of a bullfrog talkin' But then I I hadn't been grazin' in no So I figured I'd 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 time ago When the people learned to reap and sow They got all the they needed right out of the how many leaves and how many trees Would it to cover up the anatomies And that's how you figured how a suit of was worth.
then man he learned how to milk a cow And how to till the with a stone plow And he kept so busy he never had to do you Then he'd take his and all that milk And go into town and trade them for So his woman look sharp down at the farm.
Well the bullfrog let out a belly Like I'd told him kind of a joke And he said I think jivin' me my man (what me?) I I know it sounds kinda mystifyin' But the of the matter is I ain't lyin' I mean I talkin' no bullfrog, you
He said now get upset I'm not you You just go ahead, go and continue And I'll be and try to understand He said I know trees and leaves and And milk and and the farmer's But what's this the call supply and
I said I grow cotton and you grow corn And you your dungarees are all worn And me well I got to somethin' to eat You So I make you some brand new And now you bake me some corn Pretty soon we'll have across the street.
Well this didn't work, or so we've told And at that time they didn't gold So they all agreed measure their in salt Well that idea had an endin' 'cause they were more than they spendin' And besides, whoever of keepin' in a vault.
Well folks said 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 started usin' foldin' money And the tale, my friend, from end to end.
I thought it was a damn good I mean a real attempt at And I had me schoolin' 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.