I was sittin' by the on a hollow stump I thought I heard me a bullfrog jump Turned around and sure enough he sat He excuse me, buddy, but I've been readin' your And I'm to say that I'm a confused You bein' human, you'd know where at.
He I read where this old world's gonna And all on account of a called gold And that's somethin' for us frogs to Now you're at me like I'm kinda 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 whoever of a bullfrog talkin' But then I I hadn't been grazin' in no So I I'd tell him just what I thought 'bout how gold was and how gold was And he'd understand our world I explained.
I said it all a long time ago When the people first to reap and sow They got all the they needed right out of the Like how many leaves and how trees Would it take to up the anatomies 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 a stone plow 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 woman she'd look sharp at the farm.
Well the bullfrog let out a croak I'd told him some kind of a joke And he said I think you're me my man (what me?) I said I know it sounds mystifyin' But the truth of the is I ain't lyin' I mean I talkin' no bullfrog, you
He said now get upset I'm not you You just go ahead, go and continue And be quiet and try to understand He I know about trees and leaves and And and silk and the farmer's But what's thing the call supply and
I said well I cotton and you grow corn And you your dungarees are all worn And me well I got to somethin' to eat You see? So I you some brand new And now you me some fresh bread Pretty 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 they'd measure their goods in Well that had an early endin' 'cause were eatin' more than they spendin' And besides, heard of keepin' in a vault.
Well folks gold was the thing to use To pay for like from ships to shoes But it too much and it looked too good to So round about hundred and ninety Somebody started usin' money And that's the tale, my friend, end to end.
Well I it was a damn explanation I mean a real at communication And I only had me up until the I was ten But the bullfrog before he hopped I could have sworn I heard him say Your is still in the tadpole stage, my friend.