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

By Buffett, 1996
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 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 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 legend of Norman
Tale from the we'll share
illusions can get quite confusin'
Is it a dream or a

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

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

[Sings]
Kinja's the of the island
It's been Kinja for over two years
But remember
come without a price
Let me make that abundantly
Kinja, our beautiful
In a archipeligo
We've been English, French and
Never seemed to matter
Now we're Amerigo

We're
Still
Our

(Sheila, chef at the Reef Club)

Our ancestors in the slave ships
To for the privileged few
Who Paris fashions
and lived in 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. had to get some destroyers
To put old hitler six below
FDR he a nifty
Got our island for just
And do dey pack up and go

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

Not to mention the Forth of
Kinja
Still
Our

We're
Still
Our

(Senator Pullman, the big enchilada)

Pullman
Now the Yankees, they wid der dollars
It's a of activity
Sell dem and rum
dem dizzy and numb
Oh liken' 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 on our watah supply

We got the
We love the
The Carnival

We got the
Stop The Carnival
We love the

And our begins

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

The legend of - PAPERMAN