I was by the bank on a hollow stump When I thought I me a bullfrog jump Turned and sure enough there he sat He said excuse me, buddy, but been your news And I'm to say that I'm a confused You bein' human, well you'd know at.
He said I read where old world's fold And all on account of a think called And that's somethin' for us frogs to Now lookin' at me like I'm funny But where I live we don't no money So we want to be hip to the on land.
Now I thought I was so I started I mean whoever of a bullfrog talkin' But then I realized I hadn't been in no So I figured I'd tell him what I thought 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 learned to and sow They got all the they needed right out of the Like how leaves and how many trees Would it take to up the anatomies And that's how you figured how much a of was worth.
then man he learned how to milk a cow And how to the soil with a stone plow And he kept so he never had time to do you he'd take his produce and all that milk And go into town and them for silk So his woman she'd look down at the farm.
the bullfrog let out a belly croak 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 I ain't talkin' no bullfrog, you
He said now don't get I'm not you You just go ahead, go and continue And I'll be and try to understand He said I know about trees and 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 dungarees are all And me well I got to have to eat You see? So I make you brand new And now you bake me some corn Pretty we'll have shops across the street.
Well this didn't work, or so we've been And at that time they didn't about So all agreed they'd measure their in salt Well that idea had an endin' 'cause they eatin' more than they were And besides, whoever heard of in a vault.
Well said gold was the thing to use To pay for stuff like from to shoes But it weighed too and it looked too good to So round about sixteen hundred and started usin' foldin' money And the tale, my friend, from end to end.
Well I thought it was a explanation I mean a real 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.