I was sittin' by the on a hollow stump I thought I heard me a bullfrog jump Turned and sure enough there he sat He said me, buddy, but I've been readin' your And I'm sorry to say I'm a confused You bein' human, well you'd where at.
He said I read where old world's gonna And all on account of a called gold And that's hard for us frogs to Now you're lookin' at me I'm funny 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 walkin' I mean heard of a bullfrog talkin' But then I realized I hadn't been 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 learned to and sow They got all the they needed right out of the Like how many and how many trees Would it take to up the anatomies And how you figured 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 busy he had time to do you Then he'd take his produce and all that And go into town and trade for silk So his she'd look sharp down at the farm.
Well the bullfrog let out a belly Like I'd told him kind of a joke And he I think you're 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 said now don't get I'm not you You just go ahead, go ahead and And be quiet and try to understand He said I about trees and leaves and And and silk and the farmer's But what's this the call supply and
I said I grow cotton and you grow corn And you find your dungarees are all And me well I got to have to eat You see? So I you some brand new And now you bake me some bread Pretty soon we'll have shops the street.
Well this work, or so we've been told And at that time they know about So they all agreed they'd measure in salt 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 stuff from ships to shoes But it weighed too and it looked too to spend So round about sixteen hundred and Somebody started usin' foldin' And that's the tale, my friend, end to end.
I thought it was a damn good I mean a attempt at communication And I had me schoolin' up until the I was ten But the bullfrog right he hopped Well I could have I heard him say world is still in the tadpole stage, my friend.