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

By Jimmy Buffett,
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 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 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
Tale the islands we'll share
Chasin illusions can get quite
Is it a or a nightmare

Dis is the legend of Norman
from the islands we'll tell

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

Sanders
Kinja's the name of the
It's been Kinja for over two hundred
But remember
Doesn't come a price
Let me that abundantly clear
Kinja, our island
In a archipeligo
been English, French and Dutch
Never seemed to much
Now we're officially

We're
Kinja
Our

(Sheila, chef at the Gull Club)

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

Den da sugar bring us our freedom
With the 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
Still
Our

(Gilbert, gondolier of the Gull Club)

Mr. Churchill had to get destroyers
To put old hitler six feet
FDR he a nifty
Got our for just 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 and Chevrolets
Not to mention the of July

Not to mention the of July
Kinja
Still
Our

We're
Still
Our

(Senator Pullman, the big enchilada)

Senator
Now the Yankees, they wid der dollars
a beehive of activity
Sell dem and rum
dem dizzy and numb
Oh we're liken' 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 supply

Mighty short on our supply

We got the
We love the
The Kinja

We got the
Stop The Carnival
We the Carnival

And our story

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

The legend of - NORMAN