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

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

Dis is the of Norman Papuhman
Tale from the islands tell

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

Sanders
the name of the island
It's been Kinja for over two hundred
But remember
Doesn't without a price
Let me make that abundantly
Kinja, our beautiful
In a archipeligo
been English, French and Dutch
Never seemed to matter
Now we're officially

We're
Still
Our

(Sheila, chef at the Reef Club)

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

Den da sugar beet bring us our
the help 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
Kinja
Our

(Gilbert, gondolier of the Gull 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 through the streets in celebration
Da fireworks dey up da sky
We got and highways
Got and Chevrolets
Not to mention the Forth of

Not to mention the of July
We're
Kinja
Our

We're
Kinja
Our

(Senator Pullman, the big enchilada)

Senator
Now the Yankees, they wid der dollars
It's a of activity
dem crawfish and rum
Keep dem and numb
Oh liken' this 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 watah

Mighty short on our watah

We got the
We love the
The Carnival

We got the
Don't The Carnival
We the Carnival

And our story

Dis is da legend of Papuhman
Tale from de tropics tell
Chasin illusions can get confusin'
Cause heaven can into hell!

The legend of - PAPERMAN