I was sittin' by the bank on a hollow I thought I heard me a bullfrog jump Turned around and enough there he sat He said excuse me, buddy, but I've readin' your And I'm to say that I'm a confused You bein' human, you'd know where at.
He said I read where this old gonna And all on account of a think gold And that's hard for us frogs to Now you're at me like I'm funny But where I live we don't 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 I hadn't been grazin' in no So I figured I'd tell him what I thought how gold was sold and how gold was And he'd understand our when I explained.
I said it all started a long ago When the people first to reap and sow They got all the things they needed out of the how many leaves and how many trees Would it take to up the anatomies And how you figured how much a suit of was worth.
Well 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 he'd take his produce and all that milk And go into town and trade them for So his woman she'd sharp down at the farm.
Well the bullfrog let out a croak Like I'd him some kind of a joke And he I think you're jivin' me my man (what me?) I said I know it sounds kinda But the truth of the is I ain't lyin' I mean I ain't no bullfrog, you
He said now don't get I'm not you You just go ahead, go and continue And be quiet and try to understand He said I know trees and leaves and And milk and silk and the But what's this thing the supply and
I said I grow cotton and you grow corn And you find dungarees are all worn And me well I got to somethin' to eat You see? So I make you brand new And now you bake me some corn soon we'll have shops across the street.
Well this didn't work, or so we've been And at that time didn't know about So they all agreed they'd their in salt Well that idea had an endin' 'cause they were eatin' than they spendin' And besides, whoever of keepin' in a vault.
Well folks said was the thing to use To pay for stuff like from ships to But it weighed too much and it too to spend So round sixteen 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 right before he hopped Well I could sworn I heard him say Your world is in the tadpole stage, my friend.