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

By Jimmy Buffett,
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 show sing verses 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 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 legend of Papuhman
Tale from the islands share
Chasin illusions can get quite
Is it a dream or a

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

Men
Chasin illusions can get confusin'
Cause heaven can into hell.

[Sings]
Kinja's the of the island
It's been Kinja for over two hundred
But paradise
Doesn't come without a
Let me make that clear
Kinja, our beautiful
In a archipeligo
We've been English, French and
Never to matter much
Now we're Amerigo

We're
Still
Our

(Sheila, chef at the Reef Club)

Our ancestors came in the ships
To work for the few
Who Paris fashions
and in pink mansions
While we in shacks of bamboo

Den da sugar beet bring us our
With the 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 Reef Club)

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

We dance the streets in celebration
Da fireworks dey up da sky
We got and highways
Got and Chevrolets
Not to the Forth of July

Not to mention the of July
We're
Still
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 crawfish and
Calypso and
Ahhh, but we on our watah supply

Mighty short on our watah

We got the
We love the
The Kinja

We got the
Stop The Carnival
We love the

And our story

Dis is da legend of Norman
Tale from de we'll tell
Chasin illusions can get confusin'
Cause heaven can turn hell!

The legend of - NORMAN