I was sittin' by the bank on a stump When I I heard me a bullfrog jump Turned around and sure 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, you'd know where at.
He I read where this old world's fold And all on of a think called gold And that's hard for us frogs to Now you're at me like I'm funny But where I live we have no money So we want to be hip to the 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 tell him what I thought 'bout how gold was sold and how was And understand 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 they needed right out of the Like how many leaves and how many Would it to cover up the anatomies And that's how you figured how 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 busy he never had to do you he'd take his produce and all that milk And go into town and them for silk So his she'd look sharp down at the farm.
the bullfrog let out a belly croak Like I'd told him kind of a joke And he said I think you're me my man (what me?) I said I know it sounds mystifyin' But the truth of the matter is I ain't I mean I ain't no bullfrog, you
He said now don't get I'm not you You go ahead, go ahead and continue And I'll be and try to understand He said I know about and leaves and And milk and silk and the But this thing the call supply and
I said I grow cotton and you grow corn And you your dungarees are all worn And me I got to have somethin' to eat You So I make you some brand new And now you bake me some corn Pretty soon we'll shops across the street.
Well this work, or so we've been told And at that time didn't know about So all agreed they'd measure their goods in Well that had an early endin' 'cause they were eatin' more they spendin' And besides, heard of keepin' in a vault.
Well folks said was the thing to use To pay for stuff like ships to shoes But it weighed too much and it too to spend So round about hundred and ninety Somebody usin' foldin' 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 I could have sworn I heard him say Your world is in the tadpole stage, my friend.