I was by the bank on a hollow stump When I thought I heard me a bullfrog Turned around and sure 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 know at.
He said I read where this old fold And all on account of a called gold And that's somethin' hard for us to Now you're lookin' at me I'm funny But where I we don't have no money So we want to be hip to the on land.
Now I I was stoned so I walkin' I mean whoever heard of a bullfrog But then I I hadn't been grazin' in no So I figured I'd tell him just what I 'bout how gold was sold and how was And he'd understand our when I explained.
I said it all started a time ago the people first learned to reap and sow They got all the they needed right out of the Like how many and how many trees Would it to cover up the anatomies And that's how you how much a suit of was worth.
then man he learned how to milk a cow And how to till the soil with a blade And he kept so he never had time to do you Then he'd take his produce and all that And go into town and them for silk So his woman she'd sharp down at the farm.
Well the bullfrog let out a belly I'd told him some kind of a joke And he I think you're jivin' me my man (what me?) I said I know it sounds mystifyin' But the truth of the matter is I lyin' I mean I talkin' no bullfrog, you
He said now get upset I'm not you You just go ahead, go ahead and And I'll be and try to understand He said I know trees and leaves and And milk and and the farmer's 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 well I got to somethin' to eat You So I make you some brand new And now you me some fresh corn soon we'll have shops across the street.
Well this work, or so we've been told And at that time they didn't gold So they all agreed measure their in salt Well that idea had an endin' 'cause they were eatin' than they spendin' And besides, whoever of keepin' in a vault.
Well folks said was the thing to use To pay for stuff from ships to shoes But it weighed too much and it too good to So round sixteen hundred and ninety Somebody started usin' foldin' And the tale, my friend, from end to end.
Well I it was a damn explanation I mean a real at communication And I had me schoolin' up until the I was ten But the bullfrog before he hopped Well I could have I heard him say Your world is still in the stage, my friend.