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Bobby Darin
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I was sittin' by the bank on a hollow stump
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When I thought I heard me a bullfrog jump
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Turned around and sure enough there
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He sat
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He said excuse me, buddy, but I've been
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Readin' your news
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And I'm sorry to say that I'm a
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Little confused
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You bein' human, well you'd know where
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It's at.
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He said I read where this old world's
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Gonna fold
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And all on account of a think called gold
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And that's somethin' hard for us frogs
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To understand
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Now you're lookin' at me like I'm
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Kinda funny
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But where I live we don't have no money
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So we want to be hip to the happ'nin's
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Here on land.
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Now I thought I was stoned so I
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Started walkin'
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I mean whoever heard of a bullfrog talkin'
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But then I realized I hadn't been grazin'
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In no grain
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So I figured I'd tell him just what I thought
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'bout how gold was sold and how gold
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Was bought
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And he'd understand our world when
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I explained.
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I said it all started a long time ago
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When the people first learned to reap
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And sow
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They got all the things they needed right
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Out of the earth
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Like how many leaves and how many trees
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Would it take to cover up the anatomies
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And that's how you figured how much a suit
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Of clothes was worth.
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Well then man he learned how to milk a cow
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And how to till the soil with a stone
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Blade plow
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And he kept so busy he never had time to
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Do you harm
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Then he'd take his produce and all that milk
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And go into town and trade them for silk
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So his woman she'd look sharp down at
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The farm.
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Well the bullfrog let out a belly croak
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Like I'd told him some kind of a joke
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And he said I think you're jivin' me my man
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(what me?)
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I said I know it sounds kinda mystifyin'
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But the truth of the matter is I ain't lyin'
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I mean I ain't talkin' no bullfrog,
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You understand?
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He said now don't get upset I'm not
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Agin' you
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You just go ahead, go ahead and continue
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And I'll be quiet and try to understand
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He said I know about trees and leaves
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And plants
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And milk and silk and the farmer's
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Romance
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But what's this thing the call supply
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And demand?
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I said well I grow cotton and you grow corn
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And you find your dungarees are all worn
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And me well I got to have somethin' to eat
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You see? So I make you some brand
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New threads
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And now you bake me some fresh
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Corn bread
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Pretty soon we'll have shops across
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The street.
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Well this didn't work, or so we've been told
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And at that time they didn't know
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About gold
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So they all agreed they'd measure their
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Goods in salt
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Well that idea had an early endin'
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'cause they were eatin' more than they
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Were spendin'
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And besides, whoever heard of keepin'
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Salt in a vault.
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Well folks said gold was the thing to use
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To pay for stuff like from ships to shoes
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But it weighed too much and it looked too
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Good to spend
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So round about sixteen hundred and ninety
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Somebody started usin' foldin' money
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And that's the tale, my friend, from end
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To end.
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Well I thought it was a damn
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Good explanation
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I mean a real attempt at communication
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And I only had me schoolin' up until the
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Time I was ten
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But the bullfrog right before he
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Hopped away
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Well I could have sworn I heard him say
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Your world is still in the tadpole stage,
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My friend.
BULLFROG | Swamp Sessions
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