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

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 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 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 adventure has become a legend here in the Caribbean. Welcome one and all to THE LEGEND OF NORMAN PAPERMAN.

Dis is the legend of Norman
Tale from the islands share
illusions can get quite confusin'
Is it a or a nightmare

Dis is the legend of Norman
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 been Kinja for two hundred years
But remember
come without a price
Let me make abundantly clear
Kinja, our island
In a windward
been English, French and Dutch
Never seemed to much
Now we're officially

We're
Kinja
Our

(Sheila, chef at the Reef Club)

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

Den da sugar beet 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

We're
Kinja
Our

(Gilbert, gondolier of the Reef 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 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 Forth of
Kinja
Still
Our

Kinja
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 liken' this prosperity

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

Mighty short on our supply

We got the
We the Carnival
The Kinja

We got the
Stop The Carnival
We love the

And our begins

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

The legend of - NORMAN