I was by the bank on a hollow stump I thought I heard me a bullfrog jump Turned and sure enough 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 you'd where at.
He I read where this old world's fold And all on account of a think called And that's hard for us frogs to Now lookin' 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 thought I was so I started I mean whoever heard of a bullfrog But then I realized I hadn't grazin' in no So I figured I'd tell him just what I '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 they needed right out of the Like how many leaves and how trees Would it take to cover up the And that's how you figured how much a of was worth.
Well man he learned how to milk a cow And how to the soil with 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 town and trade them for silk So his woman she'd sharp down at the farm.
Well the bullfrog let out a croak I'd told him some kind of a joke And he said I you're jivin' me my man (what me?) I said I know it kinda mystifyin' But the truth of the is I ain't lyin' I I ain't talkin' no bullfrog, you
He said now don't get I'm not you You just go ahead, go and continue And I'll be quiet and try to He said I know about trees and and And milk and silk and the But what's this thing the supply and
I said well I grow cotton and you grow And you find dungarees are all worn And me well I got to have to eat You see? So I you some brand new And now you bake me some corn Pretty soon we'll shops across the street.
this didn't work, or so we've been told And at that time didn't know about So they all agreed they'd measure goods in Well that idea had an early 'cause were eatin' more than they spendin' And besides, whoever of keepin' in a vault.
Well folks gold was the thing to use To pay for like from ships to shoes But it weighed too much and it too to spend So round sixteen hundred and ninety Somebody started foldin' money And the tale, my friend, from end to end.
Well I thought it was a explanation I a real attempt at communication And I only had me up until the I was ten But the bullfrog before he away Well I have sworn I heard him say world is still in the tadpole stage, my friend.