I was sittin' by the bank on a stump I thought I heard me a bullfrog jump Turned and sure enough there he sat He excuse me, buddy, but I've been your news And I'm sorry to say I'm a little You bein' human, you'd know where at.
He said I read where old world's fold And all on account of a think gold And somethin' hard for us frogs to Now you're at me like I'm kinda But where I 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 I hadn't been grazin' in no So I I'd tell him just what I thought 'bout how gold was sold and how 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 Like how many leaves and how trees it take to cover up the anatomies And that's how you how much a suit of was worth.
Well then man he learned how to a cow And how to till the soil with a blade And he kept so busy he never had to do you Then take his produce and all that milk And go into and trade them for silk So his woman she'd look sharp at the farm.
Well the bullfrog let out a belly I'd told him some kind of a joke And he said I think jivin' me my man (what me?) I I know it sounds kinda mystifyin' But the truth of the is I ain't lyin' I mean I talkin' no bullfrog, you
He said now get upset I'm not you You just go ahead, go and continue And I'll be and try to understand He said I about trees and leaves and And milk and and the farmer's But what's thing the call supply and
I said well I grow and you grow corn And you find your are all worn And me well I got to have to eat You see? So I make you some new And now you me some fresh corn Pretty soon we'll have across the street.
Well this didn't work, or so we've told And at that time they didn't gold So all agreed they'd measure their in salt Well idea had an early endin' they were eatin' more than they were And besides, heard 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 to spend So round about sixteen hundred and Somebody started usin' money And the tale, my friend, from end to end.
I thought it was a damn good I a real attempt at communication And I only had me schoolin' up the I was ten But the bullfrog before he away Well I could have I heard him say Your world is still in the stage, my friend.