I was sittin' by the bank on a stump When I thought I me a bullfrog jump Turned and sure enough there he sat He said me, buddy, but I've been readin' your And I'm to say that I'm a confused You human, well you'd know where at.
He said I read this old world's gonna And all on account of a think called 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 thought I was so I walkin' I mean whoever heard of a bullfrog But then I I hadn't been grazin' in no So I figured I'd tell him just I thought 'bout how gold was sold and how 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 they right out of the Like how leaves and how many trees it take 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 the soil with a stone plow And he so busy he never had time to do you Then take his produce and all that milk And go into town and trade them for So his woman she'd look down at the farm.
Well the bullfrog let out a belly I'd told him some kind of a joke And he I think you're jivin' me my man (what me?) I said I it sounds kinda mystifyin' But the truth of the matter is I lyin' I mean I talkin' no bullfrog, you
He now don't get upset I'm not you You just go ahead, go and continue And be quiet and try to understand He said I know 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 dungarees are all worn And me well I got to have to eat You see? So I make you some new And now you me some fresh bread Pretty soon we'll shops across the street.
Well didn't work, or so we've been told And at time they didn't know gold So they all agreed they'd measure in salt Well that had an early endin' 'cause they were more than they were And besides, whoever heard of in a vault.
Well said gold was the thing to use To pay for stuff like ships to shoes But it weighed too much and it too good to So about sixteen hundred and ninety Somebody usin' foldin' money And the tale, my friend, from end to end.
Well I it was a damn good I mean a real attempt at And I had me schoolin' up until the I was ten But the right before he away Well I could sworn I heard him say Your world is in the tadpole stage, my friend.