I was sittin' by the bank on a hollow I thought I heard me a bullfrog jump Turned around and sure there he sat He excuse me, buddy, but I've been your news And I'm sorry to say I'm a little You human, well you'd know where at.
He said I read where old world's fold And all on account of a called gold And that's somethin' hard for us to Now you're lookin' at me I'm funny But where I live we don't have no So we want to be hip to the on land.
Now I I was stoned so I started I mean whoever of a bullfrog talkin' But I realized I hadn't been grazin' in no So I figured I'd tell him just what I 'bout how gold was sold and how was And understand our world when I explained.
I said it all started a time ago When the people learned to reap and sow They got all the things they 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 much a of was worth.
Well then man he learned how to a cow And how to till the soil with a blade And he so busy 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 look down at the farm.
Well the bullfrog let out a belly 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 kinda But the truth of the matter is I ain't I I ain't talkin' no bullfrog, you
He said now get upset I'm not you You just go ahead, go 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 well I grow cotton and you grow corn And you find your are all worn And me well I got to have to eat You see? So I make you brand new And now you bake me some corn Pretty soon we'll have shops the street.
Well this work, or so we've been told And at that time they didn't gold So all agreed they'd measure their goods in Well that idea had an endin' they were eatin' more than they were And besides, heard of keepin' in a vault.
Well said gold was the thing to use To pay for like from ships to shoes But it too much and it looked too to spend So round sixteen hundred and ninety started usin' foldin' money And the tale, my friend, from end to end.
Well I thought it was a explanation I mean a attempt at communication And I only had me up until the I was ten But the bullfrog right he away Well I could sworn I heard him say world is still in the tadpole stage, my friend.