I was sittin' by the bank on a stump When I thought I heard me a bullfrog Turned around and enough there he sat He said me, buddy, but I've been readin' your And I'm to say that I'm a confused You bein' human, well you'd know at.
He said I where this old world's fold And all on account of a think gold And that's somethin' for us frogs to Now lookin' at me like I'm funny 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 started I mean heard of a bullfrog talkin' But then I realized I hadn't grazin' in no So I figured I'd him just what I thought 'bout how was sold and how gold was And he'd understand our when I explained.
I said it all a long time ago When the people 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 figured how a suit of was worth.
Well then man he how to milk a cow And how to till the soil with a blade And he kept so busy he had time to do you Then he'd his produce and all that milk And go into town and them for silk So his woman she'd look sharp at the farm.
Well the let out a belly croak Like I'd told him 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 is I ain't lyin' I I ain't talkin' no bullfrog, you
He said now don't get I'm not you You go ahead, go ahead and continue And I'll be and try to understand He said I know about and leaves and And and silk and the farmer's But what's this the call supply and
I said well I cotton and you grow corn And you find your dungarees are all And me well I got to somethin' to eat You see? So I make you brand new And now you me some fresh corn Pretty soon we'll have shops the street.
Well this work, or so we've been told And at that time didn't know about So they all agreed they'd measure goods in Well idea had an early endin' they 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 stuff like ships to shoes But it weighed too much and it too to spend So round about sixteen hundred and Somebody started usin' money And that's the tale, my friend, end to end.
I thought it was a damn good I a real attempt at communication And I had me schoolin' up until the I was ten But the bullfrog right he hopped Well I could have sworn I him say Your world is still in the stage, my friend.