I was sittin' by the bank on a stump When I thought I heard me a bullfrog Turned around and sure enough he sat He said excuse me, buddy, but I've your news And I'm to say that I'm a little You bein' human, well know where at.
He said I where this old world's gonna And all on account of a think gold And that's somethin' for us frogs to Now you're at me like I'm kinda But where I we don't have no money So we want to be hip to the on land.
Now I I was stoned so I walkin' I mean heard of a bullfrog talkin' But then I realized I been grazin' in no So I figured I'd tell him just I thought 'bout how gold was sold and how was And he'd understand our when I explained.
I it all started a long time ago the people first learned 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.
then man he learned how to milk a cow And how to till the with a stone blade And he kept so busy he had time to do you Then he'd take his produce and all that And go into town and trade them for So his she'd look sharp down at the farm.
Well the let out a belly croak Like I'd him some kind of a joke And he said I 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 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 I know about trees and leaves and And milk and silk and the But what's this thing the call and
I said I grow cotton and you grow corn And you find dungarees are all worn And me well I got to have to eat You see? So I make you some new And now you bake me fresh corn Pretty we'll have shops across the street.
Well this work, or so we've been told And at that time they didn't about So all agreed they'd measure their in salt Well idea had an early endin' 'cause they were eatin' than they spendin' And besides, whoever of keepin' in a vault.
Well folks said gold was the to use To pay for stuff like from ships to But it weighed too much and it too good to So about sixteen hundred and ninety Somebody started usin' money And that's the tale, my friend, end to end.
I thought it was a damn good I mean a real at communication And I had me schoolin' up until the I was ten But the bullfrog right he hopped Well I could have sworn I him say Your world is still in the stage, my friend.