I was sittin' by the bank on a hollow When I I heard me a bullfrog jump Turned around and enough there he sat He said excuse me, buddy, but I've readin' your And I'm to say that I'm a little You human, well you'd know where at.
He said I read where old world's gonna And all on account of a think gold And that's somethin' hard for us to Now lookin' at me like I'm kinda But I live we don't have no money So we want to be hip to the on land.
Now I thought I was so I started I whoever heard of a bullfrog talkin' But then I realized I been grazin' in no So I figured I'd tell him just what I 'bout how was sold and how gold was And understand our world when I explained.
I said it all started a time ago When the people first to reap 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 that's how you figured how much a 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 sharp down at the farm.
Well the bullfrog let out a croak Like I'd him some kind of a joke And he said I you're jivin' me my man (what me?) I said I it sounds kinda mystifyin' But the truth of the matter is I ain't 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 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 call and
I well I grow cotton and you grow corn And you your dungarees are all worn And me well I got to have to eat You see? So I make you brand new And now you me some fresh bread Pretty soon we'll shops across the street.
Well this didn't work, or so been told And at that time they know about So they all they'd measure their in salt Well that idea had an early 'cause they were eatin' more they were And besides, heard of keepin' in a vault.
Well folks gold was the thing to use To pay for stuff like ships to shoes But it weighed too much and it too good to So round about hundred and ninety Somebody started usin' money And that's the tale, my friend, end to end.
I thought it was a damn good I a real attempt at communication And I had me schoolin' up until the I was ten But the right before he hopped Well I could sworn I heard him say Your world is in the tadpole stage, my friend.