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

By Buffett, 1996
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 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 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 adventure has become a legend here in the Caribbean. Welcome one and all to THE LEGEND OF PAPERMAN.

Dis is the of Norman Papuhman
Tale from the we'll share
Chasin illusions can get quite
Is it a or a nightmare

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

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

[Sings]
Kinja's the name of the
It's been Kinja for two hundred years
But paradise
come without a price
Let me make that abundantly
Kinja, our beautiful
In a archipeligo
been English, French and Dutch
Never to matter much
Now officially Amerigo

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 mansions
While we huddled in of bamboo

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

Hurricanes and a War or Two
We're
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 a nifty
Got our for just fifty
And do dey pack up and go

We dance through the in celebration
Da dey light up da sky
We got and highways
Got Fords and
Not to the Forth of July

Not to mention the of July
Kinja
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
dem dizzy and numb
Oh we're liken' prosperity

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

Mighty on our watah supply

We got the
We love the
The Carnival

We got the
Don't Stop The
We the Carnival

And our story

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

The of - NORMAN PAPERMAN