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 Legend of Norman Paperman, the theme of the show. The principal singer is the Governor of the island, and the key characters of the 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 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 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 Papuhman
Tale from the islands share
Chasin illusions can get confusin'
Is it a or a nightmare

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

Men
illusions can get quite confusin'
Cause heaven can turn 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 abundantly
Kinja, our beautiful
In a archipeligo
been English, French and Dutch
Never to matter much
Now we're officially

We're
Still
Our

(Sheila, at the Gull Reef Club)

Our came in the slave ships
To work for the few
Who wore Paris
and in pink mansions
While we huddled in of bamboo

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

Hurricanes and a War or Two
We're
Kinja
Our

Kinja
Still
Our

(Gilbert, gondolier of the Gull Club)

Mr. had to get some destroyers
To put old six feet below
FDR he a nifty
Got our island for fifty
And do dey pack up and go

We dance through the streets in
Da fireworks dey up da sky
We got hotdogs and
Got Fords and
Not to mention the of July

Not to the Forth of July
We're
Kinja
Our

Kinja
Still
Our

(Senator Pullman, the big enchilada)

Pullman
Now the Yankees, they wid der dollars
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 and mangos
Calypso and
Ahhh, but we on our watah supply

Mighty on our watah supply

We got the
We love the
The Kinja

We got the
Don't The Carnival
We love the

And our begins

Dis is da of Norman Papuhman
Tale from de tropics we'll
Chasin illusions can get quite
heaven can turn into hell!

The legend of - NORMAN