I was sittin' by the bank on a hollow When I thought I me a bullfrog jump Turned and sure enough there he sat He said excuse me, buddy, but been readin' news And I'm to say that I'm a little You bein' human, you'd know where at.
He said I read where old world's fold And all on account of a think called And that's hard for us frogs to Now you're lookin' at me I'm kinda But where I live we don't no money So we want to be hip to the on land.
Now I I was stoned so I walkin' I whoever heard of a bullfrog talkin' But then I realized I been grazin' in no So I figured I'd tell him just I thought how gold was sold and how gold was And understand our world when I explained.
I said it all started a long ago the people first learned to reap and sow They got all the things needed right out of the Like how many and how many trees Would it take to cover up the And that's how you how much a suit of was worth.
then man he learned how to milk a cow And how to till the with a stone plow 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 sharp at the farm.
Well the bullfrog let out a croak Like I'd told him some kind of a And he said I you're jivin' me my man (what me?) I said I know it kinda mystifyin' But the truth of the matter is I lyin' 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 about trees and leaves and And milk and and the farmer's But what's this thing the call and
I said well I grow and you grow corn And you find your dungarees are all And me well I got to have to eat You see? So I make you some new And now you me some fresh corn soon we'll have shops across the street.
Well this didn't work, or so we've told And at that time didn't know about So they all agreed they'd their goods in Well idea had an early endin' 'cause they were eatin' more than were And besides, whoever heard of in a vault.
Well folks said was the thing to use To pay for stuff like from to shoes But it weighed too and it looked too to spend So round about hundred and ninety Somebody started usin' money And the tale, my friend, from end to end.
Well I it was a damn good I mean a attempt at communication And I had me schoolin' up until the I was ten But the bullfrog right he away Well I could sworn I heard him say Your world is still in the stage, my friend.