By Jimmy Buffett, Jimmy Buffett 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 verses about the history.
Kinja was the name of the island when it was British. The actual name was 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 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 NORMAN PAPERMAN.
Dis is the of Norman Papuhman Tale from the islands share Chasin illusions can get confusin' Is it a or a nightmare
Dis is the legend of Papuhman Tale from the islands tell
Men Chasin illusions can get confusin' Cause heaven can into hell.
Sanders Kinja's the name of the It's been for over two hundred years But paradise Doesn't without a price Let me make that clear Kinja, our beautiful In a windward We've been English, French and seemed to matter much Now we're officially
We're Kinja Our
(Sheila, chef at the Gull Club)
Our ancestors in the slave ships To for the privileged few Who wore Paris and in pink mansions While we huddled in shacks of
Den da beet bring us our freedom the help of our God we got through Insurrection, beheadin's, funerals and Hurricanes and a War or Two
Hurricanes and a War or Two Kinja Still Our
Kinja Still Our
(Gilbert, gondolier of the Gull 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 the streets in celebration Da fireworks dey up da sky We got and highways Got and Chevrolets Not to mention the of July
Not to mention the Forth of We're Kinja Our
Kinja Still Our
(Senator Pullman, the big enchilada)
Senator Now the Yankees, come wid der dollars a beehive of activity Sell dem and rum Keep dem and numb 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 short on our supply
Mighty on our watah supply
We got the We love the The Kinja
We got the Stop The Carnival We love the
And our begins
Dis is da legend of Norman Tale de tropics we'll tell illusions can get quite confusin' Cause heaven can turn hell!
The legend of - PAPERMAN