I was sittin' by the on a hollow stump When I thought I heard me a bullfrog Turned around and sure there he sat He excuse me, buddy, but I've been readin' your And I'm to say that I'm a little You bein' human, well know where at.
He said I where this old world's gonna And all on account of a think called And somethin' hard for us frogs to Now you're at me like I'm kinda But I live 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 mean whoever heard of a bullfrog But I realized 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 our world when I explained.
I it all started a long time ago When the people learned to reap and sow They got all the things they right out of the Like how many leaves and how many Would it take to up the anatomies And that's how you figured how much a of was worth.
Well then man he learned how to a cow And how to the soil with a stone plow And he kept so busy he 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 look sharp down at the farm.
Well the let out a belly croak I'd told him some kind of a joke 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 said now don't get I'm not you You just go ahead, go ahead and And I'll be and try to understand He said I know about and leaves and And milk and and the farmer's But what's thing the call supply and
I said I grow cotton and you grow corn And you find dungarees are all worn And me well I got to have 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 didn't work, or so been told And at that time they didn't about So they all agreed measure their in salt Well that idea had an early they were eatin' more than they were And besides, heard of keepin' in a vault.
Well folks gold was the thing to use To pay for like from ships to shoes But it weighed too much and it too good to So round sixteen hundred and ninety Somebody started 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 right he hopped Well I could have I heard him say world is still in the tadpole stage, my friend.