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 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 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 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
from the islands we'll share
Chasin illusions can get confusin'
Is it a dream or a

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

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

[Sings]
Kinja's the of the island
It's Kinja for over two hundred years
But paradise
come without a price
Let me that abundantly clear
Kinja, our beautiful
In a archipeligo
We've been English, and Dutch
seemed to matter much
Now we're officially

We're
Still
Our

(Sheila, chef at the Gull Club)

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

Den da beet bring us our freedom
With the help of our God we got
Insurrection, beheadin's, and weddin's
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 some
To put old hitler six below
FDR he pulled a
Got our island for just
And do limeys dey up and go

We dance the streets in celebration
Da dey light up da sky
We got hotdogs and
Got Fords and
Not to mention the Forth of

Not to mention the of July
We're
Kinja
Our

Kinja
Still
Our

(Senator Pullman, the big enchilada)

Senator
Now the Yankees, they wid der dollars
It's a beehive of
dem crawfish and rum
Keep dem dizzy and
Oh we're liken' this

We got new for celebration
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 the Carnival
The Kinja

We got the
Stop The Carnival
We love the

And our begins

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

The of - NORMAN PAPERMAN