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 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. 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 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 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
Tale from the we'll tell

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

Sanders
Kinja's the name of the
It's been Kinja for over two hundred
But paradise
Doesn't without a price
Let me make that clear
Kinja, our beautiful
In a archipeligo
We've been English, French and
seemed to matter much
Now we're Amerigo

We're
Kinja
Our

(Sheila, at the Gull Reef Club)

Our ancestors in the slave ships
To for the privileged few
Who wore Paris
and lived in pink
While we huddled in shacks of

Den da sugar beet us our freedom
the help 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. Churchill had to get destroyers
To put old hitler six below
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 hotdogs and
Got and Chevrolets
Not to the Forth of July

Not to mention the Forth of
Kinja
Still
Our

We're
Still
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 dizzy and
Oh we're this prosperity

We got new for celebration
We got new laws, but no one
We got and mangos
and tangos
Ahhh, but we on our watah supply

Mighty on our watah supply

We got the
We the Carnival
The Kinja

We got the
Don't Stop The
We love the

And our begins

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

The of - NORMAN PAPERMAN