I was sittin' by the bank on a hollow When I thought I heard me a bullfrog Turned around and sure there he sat He said excuse me, buddy, but I've readin' news And I'm sorry to say I'm a confused You bein' human, you'd know where at.
He said I where this old world's gonna And all on account of a think called And that's somethin' for us frogs to Now you're at me like I'm funny But where I live we don't have no 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 I hadn't been grazin' in no So I figured I'd tell him just what I 'bout how gold was and how gold was And he'd understand our when I explained.
I it all started a long time ago When the people first learned to and sow They got all the things they right out of the Like how many leaves and how trees Would it take to cover up the And how you figured how much a suit of was worth.
Well man he learned how to milk a cow And how to the soil with a stone blade And he kept so busy he never had to do you Then he'd take his 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 kind of a And he said I you're jivin' me my man (what me?) I said I know it sounds mystifyin' But the of the matter is I ain't lyin' 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 I'll be quiet and try to He said I about trees and leaves and And milk and and the farmer's But what's this thing the call and
I said well I grow cotton and you corn And you find your are all worn And me well I got to have to eat You see? So I make you brand new And now you bake me fresh corn Pretty soon we'll have across the street.
Well didn't work, or so we've been told And at that time they know about So they all they'd measure their goods in Well idea had an early endin' 'cause were eatin' more than they spendin' And besides, whoever of keepin' in a vault.
Well folks said was the thing to use To pay for like from ships to shoes But it too much and it looked too to spend So round about sixteen and ninety started usin' foldin' money And the tale, my friend, from end to end.
Well I thought it was a explanation 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 world is still in the tadpole stage, my friend.