I was sittin' by the on a hollow stump When I thought I me a bullfrog jump Turned around and enough there he sat He said me, buddy, but I've been your news And I'm to say that I'm a little You bein' human, well know where at.
He said I read where old world's gonna And all on of a think called gold And that's hard for us frogs to Now you're at me like I'm funny But where I live we don't have no So we to be hip to the happ'nin's on land.
Now I thought I was so I walkin' I whoever heard of a bullfrog talkin' But then I realized I hadn't been in no So I figured I'd tell him just I thought 'bout how was sold and how gold was And he'd our world when I explained.
I said it all started a time ago the people first learned to reap and sow They got all the things needed right out of the Like how leaves and how many trees it take to cover up the anatomies And that's how you figured how much a of was worth.
Well then man he how to milk a cow And how to the soil with a stone blade And he kept so busy he never had to do you Then he'd his produce and all that milk And go into town and trade them for So his woman look sharp down at the farm.
Well the let out a belly croak Like I'd told him some of a joke And he said I think you're me my man (what me?) I I know it sounds kinda mystifyin' But the truth of the matter is I ain't I mean I ain't no bullfrog, you
He now don't get upset I'm not you You just go ahead, go ahead and And I'll be quiet and try to He I know about trees 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 your dungarees are all worn 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 didn't work, or so we've been told And at that time they didn't gold So all agreed they'd measure their goods in that idea had an early endin' 'cause were eatin' more than they were And besides, whoever heard of in a vault.
Well folks said gold was the to use To pay for stuff like ships to shoes But it weighed too and it looked too good to So round about sixteen hundred and Somebody started usin' money And the tale, my friend, from end to end.
Well I it was a damn explanation I mean a real attempt at And I had me schoolin' up until the I was ten But the bullfrog before he away Well I could have sworn I him say Your world is in the tadpole stage, my friend.