I was sittin' by the bank on a hollow When I I heard me a bullfrog jump Turned around and sure there he sat He excuse me, buddy, but I've been readin' 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 of a think called gold And somethin' hard 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 thought I was so I started I mean whoever heard of a bullfrog But then I realized I hadn't been in no So I figured I'd him just what I thought 'bout how gold was and how gold was And he'd our world when I explained.
I said it all started a long ago When the first learned to reap and sow They got all the things they needed out of the Like how many leaves and how many 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 soil with a plow And he so busy he never had time to do you he'd take his produce and all that milk And go into town and them for silk So his woman look sharp down at the farm.
Well the let out a belly croak Like I'd told him some of a joke And he said I think you're me my man (what me?) I said I know it sounds mystifyin' But the of the matter is I ain't lyin' I mean I talkin' no bullfrog, you
He said now get upset I'm not you You go ahead, go ahead and continue And be quiet and try to understand He said I about trees and leaves and And milk and and the farmer's But this thing the call supply and
I said I grow cotton and you grow corn And you find your are all worn And me well I got to somethin' to eat You see? So I you some brand new And now you bake me fresh corn Pretty we'll have shops across the street.
Well this didn't work, or so been told And at that time they know gold So they all agreed they'd their in salt Well that had an early endin' 'cause were eatin' more than they were And besides, heard of keepin' in a vault.
Well folks said gold was the to use To pay for like from ships to shoes But it weighed too and it looked too to spend So about sixteen hundred and ninety Somebody usin' foldin' money And the tale, my friend, from end to end.
I thought it was a damn good I mean a real attempt at And I had me schoolin' up until the I was ten But the bullfrog right he away Well I could have sworn I him say Your world is in the tadpole stage, my friend.