I was sittin' by the on a hollow stump When I thought I heard me a jump Turned around and sure enough he sat He said excuse me, buddy, but been readin' your And I'm sorry to say I'm a confused You bein' human, well you'd know at.
He said I read this old world's gonna And all on of a think 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 whoever heard of a bullfrog talkin' But then I realized I hadn't been in no So I figured I'd tell him what I thought 'bout how gold was sold and how was And understand 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 how many leaves and how many trees Would it to cover up the anatomies And that's how you figured how much a of was worth.
Well man he learned how to milk a cow And how to till the with a stone plow And he kept so busy he 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 sharp at the farm.
Well the bullfrog let out a belly Like I'd told him some of a joke And he said I think you're me my man (what me?) I said I it sounds kinda mystifyin' But the of the matter is I ain't lyin' I I ain't 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 said I know about trees and and And milk and and the farmer's But what's this thing the call and
I said well I cotton and you grow corn And you find your dungarees are all And me I got to have somethin' to eat You see? So I make you brand new And now you me some fresh bread Pretty soon we'll have across the street.
Well this didn't work, or so we've told And at that time they know gold So they all agreed they'd measure goods in Well that had an early endin' 'cause they were eatin' more than spendin' And besides, whoever heard of 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 good to So round about sixteen hundred and Somebody started foldin' money And the tale, my friend, from end to end.
Well I thought it was a good I a real attempt at communication And I had me schoolin' up until the I was ten But the bullfrog right he away Well I could sworn I heard him say Your is still in the tadpole stage, my friend.