I was sittin' by the bank on a stump I thought I heard me a bullfrog jump Turned around and enough there he sat He said me, buddy, but I've been readin' news And I'm sorry to say I'm a confused You bein' human, well you'd where at.
He said I read where old world's fold And all on account of a think gold And that's somethin' hard for us to Now you're at me like I'm funny 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 bullfrog But then I realized I hadn't been in no So I figured I'd tell him just I thought 'bout how gold was and how gold was And he'd our world when I explained.
I it all started 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 leaves and how trees it take to cover up the anatomies And that's how you how much a suit of was worth.
Well 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 he'd take his produce and all that milk And go into and trade them 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 you're jivin' me my man (what me?) I said I it sounds kinda mystifyin' But the truth of the is I ain't lyin' I mean I ain't no bullfrog, you
He now don't get upset I'm not you You just go ahead, go and continue And I'll be and try to understand He said I know trees and leaves and And milk and silk and the But what's this thing the supply and
I said well I cotton and you grow corn And you find your dungarees are all And me well I got to have to eat You see? So I you some brand new And now you bake me fresh bread Pretty soon we'll have across the street.
Well this didn't work, or so been told And at that time didn't know about So they all agreed measure their goods in Well idea had an early endin' 'cause they eatin' more than they spendin' And besides, whoever heard of in a vault.
Well folks said was the thing to use To pay for stuff like ships to shoes But it weighed too much and it too to spend So round about hundred and ninety Somebody usin' foldin' money And that's the tale, my friend, end to end.
Well I thought it was a explanation I mean a real attempt at And I only had me schoolin' up the I was ten But the right before he away Well I could have sworn I him say world is still in the tadpole stage, my friend.