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 excuse me, buddy, but I've been your news And I'm to say that I'm a confused 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 that's somethin' for us frogs to Now you're at me like 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 thought I was so I walkin' I mean heard of a bullfrog talkin' But then I realized I hadn't grazin' in no So I figured I'd tell him what I thought 'bout how gold was sold and how 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 Like how many leaves and how many Would it to cover 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 the soil with a stone blade And he kept so 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 sharp down at the farm.
the bullfrog let out a belly croak Like I'd him some kind of a joke And he said I think jivin' me my man (what me?) I I know it sounds kinda mystifyin' But the truth of the matter is I ain't I I ain't talkin' no bullfrog, you
He said now don't get I'm not you You just go ahead, go and continue And I'll be and try to understand He said I know about trees and and And milk and and the farmer's But what's this thing the call and
I said well I grow cotton and you grow And you your dungarees are all worn And me I got to have somethin' to eat You see? So I make you some new And now you bake me fresh bread Pretty soon have shops across the street.
this didn't work, or so we've been told And at that time they know about So they all agreed measure their in salt Well idea had an early endin' 'cause they were eatin' more than were 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 to spend So round about hundred and ninety started usin' foldin' money And that's the tale, my friend, end to end.
Well I thought it was a good I mean a real attempt at 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 world is in the tadpole stage, my friend.