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 me, buddy, but I've been readin' news And I'm sorry to say I'm a confused You bein' human, well you'd where at.
He I read where this old world's gonna And all on account of a called gold And that's hard for us frogs to Now you're at me like I'm funny But I live we don't have no money So we want to be hip to the on land.
Now I I was stoned so I started I mean whoever heard of a talkin' But then I I hadn't been grazin' in no So I figured I'd tell him just what I how gold was sold and how gold was And he'd understand our when I explained.
I it all started a long time ago When the people first to reap and sow They got all the things they needed 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 blade And he kept so busy he never had 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.
the bullfrog let out a belly croak Like I'd told him some kind of a And he I think 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 mean I talkin' no bullfrog, you
He now don't get upset I'm not you You just go ahead, go ahead and And be quiet and try to understand He I know about trees and leaves and And milk and silk and the But what's thing the call supply and
I well I grow cotton and you grow corn And you find your dungarees are all And me I got to have somethin' to eat You So I make you some brand new And now you me some fresh bread Pretty we'll have shops across the street.
this didn't work, or so we've been told And at that time they didn't about So they all agreed measure their goods in Well that had an early endin' 'cause they were eatin' more they spendin' And besides, whoever of keepin' in a vault.
Well said gold was the thing to use To pay for like from ships to shoes But it weighed too and it looked too good to So about sixteen hundred and ninety Somebody started usin' money And the tale, my friend, from end to end.
I thought it was a damn good I mean a attempt at communication And I only had me up until the I was ten But the bullfrog right he away Well I could have sworn I him say Your is still in the tadpole stage, my friend.