I was by the bank on a hollow stump I thought I heard me a bullfrog jump Turned and sure enough there he sat He said excuse me, buddy, but I've readin' your And I'm sorry to say I'm a little You bein' human, well you'd where at.
He said I read where old world's fold And all on of a think called gold And that's hard for us frogs to Now you're lookin' at me I'm funny But where I live we don't have no So we to be hip to the happ'nin's on land.
Now I I was stoned so I walkin' I mean whoever of a bullfrog talkin' But then I I hadn't been grazin' in no So I figured I'd tell him just I thought 'bout how gold was and how gold was And he'd understand our when I explained.
I said it all a long time ago When the people first learned to and sow They got all the things needed right out of the how many leaves and how many trees Would it take to cover up the 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 with a stone blade And he so busy he never had time 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 down at the farm.
Well the let out a belly croak Like I'd told him some kind of a And he said I think you're me my man (what me?) I I know it sounds kinda mystifyin' But the truth of the matter is I lyin' I mean I ain't no bullfrog, you
He said now don't get I'm not you You just go ahead, go ahead and And I'll be quiet and try to He said I know trees and leaves and And milk and silk and the But what's this thing the supply and
I said well I grow cotton and you corn And you find dungarees are all worn And me I got to have somethin' to eat You see? So I you some brand new And now you bake me some bread Pretty soon we'll have shops the street.
Well this didn't work, or so we've told And at that time they know gold So they all they'd measure their in salt Well that had an early endin' 'cause they were more than they were And besides, heard of keepin' in a vault.
Well folks said gold was the to use To pay for stuff from ships to shoes But it too much and it looked too good to So round about hundred and ninety Somebody started usin' money And that's the tale, my friend, end to end.
Well I thought it was a good I mean a real at communication And I had me schoolin' up until the I was ten But the bullfrog before he away Well I could have I heard him say Your is still in the tadpole stage, my friend.