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

By Jimmy Buffett,
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 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 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 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 adventure has 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 dream or a

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

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

Sanders
Kinja's the of the island
It's Kinja for over two hundred years
But paradise
Doesn't without a price
Let me make that clear
Kinja, our island
In a windward
been English, French and Dutch
Never to matter much
Now we're Amerigo

We're
Still
Our

(Sheila, at the Gull Reef Club)

Our ancestors came in the slave
To work for the few
Who wore fashions
and in pink mansions
While we huddled in shacks of

Den da beet bring 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
Kinja
Still
Our

Kinja
Still
Our

(Gilbert, of the Gull Reef Club)

Mr. Churchill had to get destroyers
To put old hitler six feet
FDR he pulled a
Got our for just fifty
And do dey pack 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 Forth of

Not to mention the of July
We're
Still
Our

Kinja
Still
Our

(Senator Pullman, the big enchilada)

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

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

Mighty on our watah supply

We got the
We love the
The Kinja

We got the
Don't The Carnival
We the Carnival

And our story

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

The legend of - NORMAN