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 me, buddy, but I've been readin' news And I'm sorry to say I'm a little You bein' human, well know where at.
He said I read this old world's fold And all on account of a think called And somethin' hard for us frogs to Now lookin' at me like I'm kinda But where I live we have no money So we to be hip to the happ'nin's on land.
Now I thought I was so I started I mean heard 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 was sold and how gold was And he'd understand our world 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 how many leaves and how many trees Would it take to up the anatomies And that's how you figured how 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 never had to do you Then he'd take his produce and all milk And go into town and trade for silk So his woman she'd look sharp at the farm.
Well the let out a belly croak Like I'd told him some kind of a And he I think you're jivin' me my man (what me?) I said I know it sounds kinda But the truth of the matter is I ain't I mean I ain't no bullfrog, you
He said now get upset I'm not you You go ahead, go ahead and continue And I'll be and try to understand He said I about trees and leaves and And milk and silk and the But this thing the call supply and
I said well I grow and you grow corn And you your dungarees are all worn And me I got to have somethin' to eat You see? So I make you brand new And now you bake me 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 all agreed they'd measure their goods in Well idea had an early endin' 'cause they were eatin' than they spendin' And besides, heard of keepin' in a vault.
Well folks gold was the thing to use To pay for stuff from ships to shoes But it too much and it looked too to spend So round about sixteen hundred and Somebody started usin' money And that's the tale, my friend, end to end.
I thought it was a damn good I mean a real attempt at And I only had me schoolin' up the I was ten But the right before he hopped Well I could sworn I heard him say world is still in the tadpole stage, my friend.