I was by the bank on a hollow stump When I thought I me a bullfrog jump Turned around and sure there he sat He said me, buddy, but I've been your news And I'm sorry to say I'm a confused You bein' human, well know where at.
He said I read where this old fold And all on account of a called gold And that's hard for us frogs to Now you're at me like I'm kinda But where I live we don't no money So we to be hip to the happ'nin's on land.
Now I I was stoned so I started I mean whoever heard of a talkin' But I realized I hadn't been grazin' in no So I figured I'd him just what I thought 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 people learned to reap and sow got all the things they 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 the soil with a stone blade And he kept so busy he never had to do you Then he'd take his produce and all that And go into town and them for silk So his woman look sharp down at the farm.
the bullfrog let out a belly croak Like I'd him some kind of a joke And he I think you're jivin' me my man (what me?) I said I know it kinda mystifyin' But the truth of the is I ain't lyin' I mean I talkin' no bullfrog, you
He now don't get upset I'm not you You just go ahead, go ahead and And be quiet and try to understand He said I know about and leaves and And milk and and the farmer's But this thing the call supply and
I said well I grow and you grow corn And you your dungarees are all worn And me well I got to somethin' to eat You So I make you some brand new And now you bake me fresh bread Pretty soon we'll have across the street.
Well this work, or so we've been told And at that time they know about So they all agreed they'd their goods in Well that had an early endin' they were eatin' more than they were And besides, heard of keepin' in a vault.
Well folks said was the thing to use To pay for stuff from ships to shoes But it weighed too and it looked too to spend So round about sixteen hundred and Somebody started usin' money And the tale, my friend, from end to end.
Well I it was a damn explanation I mean a attempt at communication And I had me schoolin' up until the I was ten But the right before he away Well I could sworn I heard him say Your is still in the tadpole stage, my friend.