I was sittin' by the bank on a stump I thought I heard me a bullfrog jump Turned around and sure there he sat He said excuse me, buddy, but been readin' news And I'm sorry to say I'm a little You bein' human, you'd know where at.
He said I read where this old fold And all on account of a called gold And that's somethin' hard for us to Now you're at me like I'm funny But where I live we have no money So we want to be hip to the on land.
Now I I was stoned so I walkin' I mean whoever of a bullfrog talkin' But then I I hadn't been grazin' in no So I figured I'd tell him what I thought how gold was sold and how gold was And he'd understand our when I explained.
I said it all a long time ago When the people first to reap and sow got all the things they needed right out of the Like how leaves and how many trees Would it to cover up the anatomies And that's how you how much a suit of was worth.
Well man he learned how to milk a cow And how to till the with a stone blade And he so busy he never had time to do you Then he'd take his produce and all that And go into town and trade for silk So his woman look sharp down at the farm.
Well the let out a belly croak Like I'd him some kind of a joke And he said I you're jivin' me my man (what me?) I said I know it kinda mystifyin' But the truth of the matter is I ain't 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 be quiet and try to understand He said I about trees and leaves and And milk and and the farmer's But what's thing the call supply and
I said well I cotton and you grow corn And you find 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 some corn soon we'll have shops across the street.
Well this work, or so we've been told And at time they didn't know gold So all agreed they'd measure their goods in Well idea had an early endin' 'cause they eatin' more than they spendin' And besides, whoever heard of in a vault.
Well folks said was the thing to use To pay for stuff like from to shoes But it too much and it looked too to spend So round about hundred and ninety Somebody started usin' money And the tale, my friend, from end to end.
Well I thought it was a good I mean a real attempt at And I only had me up until the I was ten But the right before he hopped Well I could have sworn I him say Your world is in the tadpole stage, my friend.