I was sittin' by the on a hollow stump When I thought I me a bullfrog jump Turned around and sure there he sat He said excuse me, buddy, but 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 this old fold And all on account of a think gold And that's hard for us frogs to Now you're lookin' at me I'm funny 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 realized I hadn't grazin' in no So I figured I'd him just what I thought 'bout how gold was and how gold was And he'd understand our when I explained.
I it all started a long time ago When the people learned to reap and sow They got all the things they needed 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 how to milk a cow And how to till the soil with a blade And he kept so busy he had time to do you Then he'd take his and all that milk And go into town and them for silk So his woman she'd look sharp at the farm.
the bullfrog let out a belly croak Like I'd told him kind of a joke And he said I think jivin' me my man (what me?) I said I know it kinda mystifyin' But the of the matter is I ain't lyin' I I ain't talkin' no bullfrog, you
He now don't 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 and silk and the farmer's But this thing the call supply and
I well I grow cotton and you grow corn And you find your dungarees are all And me well I got to have to eat You So I make you some brand new And now you me some fresh corn soon we'll have shops across the street.
Well this didn't work, or so we've told And at that time didn't know about So they all agreed measure their in salt Well idea had an early endin' 'cause they were eatin' than they were And besides, heard of keepin' in a vault.
Well said gold was the thing to use To pay for stuff like from to shoes But it weighed too much and it too good to So about sixteen hundred and ninety started usin' foldin' money And that's the tale, my friend, end to end.
Well I it was a damn explanation I mean a attempt at communication And I only had me schoolin' up the I was ten But the bullfrog before he away Well I could sworn I heard him say Your world is still in the stage, my friend.