By Buffett, 1996 Jimmy Buffett explores new creative ground here, putting the year history of Amerigo, a fictitious Caribbean island, into a Calypso number, and framing it into another song, The Legend of Norman Paperman, the theme of the show. The principal singer is the Governor of the island, and the key characters of the show sing verses about the history.
Kinja was the name of the when it was British. The actual name was King George The Third Island, but the islanders shortened that to Kinja. Now the name in the maps and the guidebooks is Amerigo, but everybody who still lives there still calls it Kinja. The United States acquired the island peaceably in 1940 as part of the shuffling of old destroyers and Caribbean real estate that went on between Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Churchill. The details of the transaction were and are vague to the inhabitants. The West Indian is not exactly hostile to change, but he's not much inclined to believe in it. Meantime in a fashion Amerigo is getting Americanized. The inflow of cash is making everyone more prosperous. Most Kinjans go along cheerily with this explosion of American energy in the Caribbean. To them it seems like a new harmless and apparently endless Carnival.
Have you ever dreamed of escaping from your dull existence to a new life on a tropical island? Our story is about a man who did it - a real person, whose true has become a legend here in the Caribbean. Welcome one and all to THE LEGEND OF NORMAN PAPERMAN.
Dis is the legend of Papuhman Tale from the islands share Chasin can get quite confusin' Is it a or a nightmare
Dis is the of Norman Papuhman Tale from the islands tell
Men Chasin can get quite confusin' Cause heaven can turn hell.
Sanders the name of the island It's been Kinja for over two hundred But remember Doesn't without a price Let me make that abundantly Kinja, our beautiful In a archipeligo been English, French and Dutch Never seemed to matter Now we're officially
We're Still Our
(Sheila, chef at the Reef Club)
Our ancestors came in the slave To work for the few Who Paris fashions and lived in pink While we huddled in shacks of
Den da sugar beet bring us our the help of our God we got through Insurrection, beheadin's, and weddin's Hurricanes and a War or Two
Hurricanes and a War or Two Kinja Still Our
Kinja Kinja Our
(Gilbert, gondolier of the Gull Club)
Mr. had to get some destroyers To put old six feet below FDR he pulled a Got our island for fifty And do limeys dey up and go
We through the streets in celebration Da fireworks dey up da sky We got and highways Got and Chevrolets Not to mention the Forth of
Not to mention the of July We're Kinja Our
We're Kinja Our
(Senator Pullman, the big enchilada)
Senator Now the Yankees, they wid der dollars It's a of activity dem crawfish and rum Keep dem and numb Oh liken' this prosperity
We got new for celebration We got new laws, but no one We got and mangos Calypso and Ahhh, but we short on our watah
Mighty short on our watah
We got the We love the The Carnival
We got the Don't The Carnival We the Carnival
And our story
Dis is da legend of Papuhman Tale from de tropics tell Chasin illusions can get confusin' Cause heaven can into hell!
The legend of - PAPERMAN