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

By Buffett, 1996
Jimmy Buffett explores new creative ground here, the two-hundred 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 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 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. 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 adventure has become a here in the Caribbean. Welcome one and all to THE LEGEND OF NORMAN PAPERMAN.

Dis is the legend of Norman
from the islands we'll share
Chasin illusions can get confusin'
Is it a dream or a

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

Men
Chasin can get quite confusin'
heaven can turn into hell.

Sanders
Kinja's the of the island
It's been for over two hundred years
But remember
Doesn't come a price
Let me make that abundantly
Kinja, our island
In a windward
We've been English, French and
Never seemed to matter
Now we're officially

We're
Still
Our

(Sheila, chef at the Gull Club)

Our ancestors came in the ships
To for the privileged few
Who wore fashions
and lived in pink
While we in shacks of bamboo

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

Hurricanes and a War or Two
We're
Still
Our

Kinja
Still
Our

(Gilbert, gondolier of the Reef Club)

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

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

Not to mention the Forth of
We're
Still
Our

Kinja
Still
Our

(Senator Pullman, the big enchilada)

Senator
Now the Yankees, they wid der dollars
It's a beehive of
Sell dem and rum
Keep dem and numb
Oh we're this prosperity

We got new holidays for
We got new laws, but no one
We got and mangos
and tangos
Ahhh, but we on our watah supply

Mighty short on our watah

We got the
We the Carnival
The Carnival

We got the
Don't Stop The
We love the

And our begins

Dis is da legend of Norman
Tale from de tropics tell
Chasin can get quite confusin'
heaven can turn into hell!

The legend of - PAPERMAN