It took me a long time, to find out my mistakes   Took me a long time, to find out my mistakes   (it sho' did man)   But I bet you my bottom dollar, I'm not fattenin' no more frogs for snakes      I found out my downfall, back in nineteen and thirty   (I started checkin')   I found out my downfall, from nineteen and thirty   I'm tellin' all of my friends, I'm not fattenin' no more frogs for snakes      All right now... (solo)      Yeh it is nineteen and fifty-seven, I've got to correct all of my mistakes   Whoa man, nineteen and fifty-seven, I've got to correct all of my mistakes   I'm tellin' my friends includin' my wife and everybody else,   not fattenin' no more frogs for snakes