Luyện nghe bài hát Intro-The Legend Of Norman Paperman/Kinja

By Buffett, 1996
Jimmy Buffett explores new creative ground here, putting the two-hundred year history of Amerigo, a fictitious Caribbean island, into a Calypso number, and framing it into another song, The 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 island 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 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 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 adventure has become a legend here in the Caribbean. Welcome one and all to THE LEGEND OF NORMAN PAPERMAN.

Dis is the of Norman Papuhman
from the islands we'll share
Chasin illusions can get quite
Is it a or a nightmare

Dis is the of Norman Papuhman
Tale from the islands we'll

Men
Chasin illusions can get quite
Cause heaven can into hell.

[Sings]
Kinja's the name of the
It's been for over two hundred years
But remember
come without a price
Let me make that abundantly
Kinja, our beautiful
In a archipeligo
We've English, French and Dutch
Never to matter much
Now officially Amerigo

We're
Still
Our

(Sheila, chef at the Gull Club)

Our ancestors came in the slave
To for the privileged few
Who Paris fashions
and lived in mansions
we huddled in shacks of bamboo

Den da sugar beet us our freedom
With the help of our God we got
Insurrection, beheadin's, and weddin's
and a World War or Two

Hurricanes and a War or Two
We're
Still
Our

We're
Kinja
Our

(Gilbert, gondolier of the Reef Club)

Mr. Churchill had to get destroyers
To put old six feet below
FDR he pulled a
Got our island for fifty
And do limeys dey up and go

We dance through the in celebration
Da fireworks dey up da sky
We got hotdogs and
Got Fords and
Not to mention the of July

Not to the Forth of July
Kinja
Still
Our

Kinja
Still
Our

(Senator Pullman, the big enchilada)

Senator
Now the Yankees, they come wid der
It's a of activity
dem crawfish and rum
Keep dem dizzy and
Oh we're this prosperity

We got new for celebration
We got new laws, but no one
We got crawfish and
Calypso and
Ahhh, but we short on our supply

Mighty short on our watah

We got the
We the Carnival
The Carnival

We got the
Don't Stop The
We the Carnival

And our story

Dis is da legend of Papuhman
Tale de tropics we'll tell
Chasin illusions can get quite
Cause can turn into hell!

The legend of - NORMAN