I was by the bank on a hollow stump When I I heard me a bullfrog jump Turned around and enough there he sat He said excuse me, buddy, but I've readin' your And I'm sorry to say I'm a little You bein' human, well you'd where at.
He said I read where old world's gonna And all on account of a called gold And that's hard for us frogs to Now you're at me like I'm funny But I live we don't have no money So we to be hip to the happ'nin's on land.
Now I I was stoned so I walkin' I mean heard of a bullfrog talkin' But then I realized I hadn't grazin' 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 When the people learned to reap and sow They got all the things needed right out of the Like how many and how many trees Would it to cover up the anatomies And how you figured how much a suit of was worth.
Well man he learned how to milk a cow And how to till the soil a stone blade And he kept so he never had time to do you Then he'd take his produce and all milk And go into town and trade them for So his she'd look sharp down at the farm.
the bullfrog 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 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 and try to understand He said I about trees and leaves and And milk and silk and the But what's this thing the call and
I said I grow cotton and you grow corn And you find your dungarees are all And me I got to have somethin' to eat You see? So I make you some new And now you me some fresh bread Pretty soon have shops across the street.
Well this didn't work, or so been told And at time they didn't know gold So all agreed they'd measure their in salt Well that idea had an endin' 'cause were eatin' more than they spendin' And besides, heard of keepin' in a vault.
Well said gold was the thing to use To pay for stuff like from ships to But it weighed too and it looked too good to So round about sixteen hundred and Somebody usin' foldin' money And that's the tale, my friend, end to end.
Well I thought it was a explanation I mean a real at communication And I only had me schoolin' up the I was ten But the bullfrog before he hopped Well I have sworn I heard him say world is still in the tadpole stage, my friend.