I was sittin' by the on a hollow stump When I thought I heard me a bullfrog Turned around and sure enough he sat He said me, buddy, but I've been readin' your And I'm to say that I'm a confused You human, well 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 lookin' 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 thought I was so I started I whoever heard of a bullfrog talkin' But then I realized I hadn't been in no So I figured I'd tell him just what I 'bout how gold was sold and how was And understand our world when I explained.
I said it all started a time ago When the people first to reap and sow got all the things they needed right out of the Like how many leaves and how many it take to cover 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 till the soil with a blade And he kept so he never had time 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 let out a belly croak Like I'd him some kind of a joke And he said I think you're me my man (what me?) I said I know it kinda mystifyin' But the truth of the matter is I lyin' I mean I ain't no bullfrog, you
He said now get upset I'm not you You go ahead, go ahead and continue And I'll be quiet and try to He I know about trees and leaves and And and silk and the farmer's But what's this thing the call and
I said well I cotton and you grow corn And you find your dungarees are all And me I got to have somethin' 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 work, or so we've been told And at that time didn't know about So they all agreed they'd their goods in Well idea had an early endin' 'cause they were eatin' more than were And besides, whoever of keepin' in a vault.
Well folks said gold was the to use To pay for stuff from ships to shoes But it weighed too much and it too good to So round about sixteen and ninety Somebody started usin' foldin' And the tale, my friend, from end to end.
Well I it was a damn good I mean a real attempt at And I only had me schoolin' up the I was ten But the right before he hopped I could have sworn I heard him say Your world is still in the stage, my friend.