I was sittin' by the bank on a hollow I thought I heard me a bullfrog jump Turned around and enough there he sat He said excuse me, buddy, but been readin' your And I'm to say that I'm a little You bein' human, well you'd where at.
He said I read this old world's fold And all on account of a called gold And somethin' hard for us frogs to Now lookin' at me like I'm kinda 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 walkin' I mean whoever heard of a bullfrog But then I I hadn't been grazin' in no So I figured I'd tell him what I thought 'bout how gold was and how gold was And he'd our world when I explained.
I said it all started a long 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 Would it take to up the anatomies And how you figured how much a suit of was worth.
Well then man he how to milk a cow And how to till the soil 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 and trade them for silk So his woman look sharp down at the farm.
the bullfrog let out a belly croak Like I'd him some kind of a joke And he I think you're jivin' me my man (what me?) I said I know it sounds mystifyin' But the truth of the matter is I lyin' I mean I talkin' no bullfrog, you
He said now get upset I'm not you You just go ahead, go ahead and And I'll be and try to understand He said I know about trees and and And milk and silk and the But this thing the call supply and
I said well I grow cotton and you grow And you find your are all worn And me well I got to somethin' to eat You see? So I make you some new And now you bake me some bread Pretty soon we'll shops across the street.
Well this work, or so we've been told And at time they didn't know gold So they all agreed they'd measure goods in that idea had an early endin' 'cause they were eatin' than they spendin' And besides, whoever of keepin' in a vault.
Well folks gold was the thing to use To pay for stuff like from ships to But it too much and it looked too to spend So round sixteen hundred and ninety Somebody started usin' foldin' And the tale, my friend, from end to end.
Well I it was a damn good I a real attempt at communication And I had me schoolin' up until the I was ten But the bullfrog before he away Well I could sworn I heard him say Your is still in the tadpole stage, my friend.