I was sittin' by the on a hollow stump When I thought I me a bullfrog jump Turned around and sure enough he sat He excuse me, buddy, but I've been your news And I'm to say that I'm a little You bein' human, well you'd know at.
He said I read where old world's gonna And all on account of a think called And that's somethin' hard for us to Now lookin' at me like I'm funny 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 then I realized I hadn't been in no So I figured I'd him just what I thought 'bout how gold was sold and how was And he'd understand our world I explained.
I said it all started a time ago When the people learned to reap and sow They got all the things they needed out of the Like how many and how many trees Would it take to up the anatomies And how you figured how much a suit of was worth.
Well then man he learned how to a cow And how to till the soil with a plow And he kept so he never had time to do you Then he'd take his produce and all milk And go into and trade them for silk So his woman she'd look sharp at the farm.
the bullfrog let out a belly croak Like I'd told him some of a joke And he said I you're jivin' me my man (what me?) I said I know it kinda mystifyin' But the truth of the matter is I lyin' I I ain't talkin' no bullfrog, you
He said now don't get I'm not you You go ahead, go ahead and continue And be quiet and try to understand He said I about trees and leaves and And and silk and the farmer's But what's this the call supply 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 soon we'll have shops across the street.
Well didn't work, or so we've been told And at that they didn't know gold So they all they'd measure their goods in Well that idea had an early 'cause they were eatin' than they were And besides, whoever heard of in a vault.
Well folks said gold was the to use To pay for stuff like from ships to But it too much and it looked too good to So about sixteen hundred and ninety Somebody started foldin' money And the tale, my friend, from end to end.
I thought 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 have sworn I heard him say Your world is still in the stage, my friend.