I was sittin' by the on a hollow stump When I I heard me a bullfrog jump Turned around and sure enough he sat He said excuse me, buddy, but been readin' your And I'm to say that I'm a little You bein' human, you'd know where at.
He said I read this old world's fold And all on account of a think called And somethin' hard for us frogs to Now lookin' at me like I'm funny But where I live we have no money So we to be hip to the happ'nin's on land.
Now I I was stoned so I started I whoever heard of a bullfrog talkin' But then I realized I been grazin' in no So I figured I'd tell him just what I how gold was sold and how gold was And he'd understand our when I explained.
I said it all a long time ago When the first learned to reap and sow They got all the things they right out of the how many leaves and how many trees Would it take to cover up the And how you figured how much 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 he never had time to do you Then he'd take his produce and all that And go into town and trade for silk So his woman look sharp down at the farm.
the bullfrog let out a belly croak Like I'd told him some of a joke And he said I think jivin' me my man (what me?) I said I know it sounds kinda But the truth of the matter is I ain't I mean I 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 know about trees and and And milk and and the farmer's But this thing the call supply and
I said well I grow cotton and you grow And you your dungarees are all worn And me well I got to somethin' to eat You see? So I make you some new And now you bake me fresh corn soon we'll have shops across the street.
Well this didn't work, or so been told And at that time didn't know about So they all agreed they'd their goods in Well that idea had an endin' 'cause they were more than they spendin' And besides, heard of keepin' in a vault.
Well folks gold was the thing to use To pay for like from ships to shoes But it too much and it looked too good to 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 only had me up until the I was ten But the bullfrog right he away Well I could have sworn I him say world is still in the tadpole stage, my friend.