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 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 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
Tale the islands we'll share
Chasin illusions can get quite
Is it a or a nightmare

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

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

Sanders
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 island
In a windward
been English, French and Dutch
Never to matter much
Now we're officially

We're
Kinja
Our

(Sheila, chef at the Gull Club)

Our ancestors came in the ships
To for the privileged few
Who wore fashions
and lived in mansions
While we in shacks of bamboo

Den da sugar beet us our freedom
With the of our God we got through
Insurrection, beheadin's, and weddin's
Hurricanes and a War or Two

Hurricanes and a War or Two
Kinja
Still
Our

We're
Still
Our

(Gilbert, gondolier of the Gull Club)

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

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

Not to the Forth of July
Kinja
Still
Our

Kinja
Still
Our

(Senator Pullman, the big enchilada)

Pullman
Now the Yankees, they come wid der
a beehive of activity
Sell dem and rum
dem dizzy and numb
Oh we're this prosperity

We got new holidays for
We got new laws, but no one
We got crawfish and
and tangos
Ahhh, but we short on our supply

Mighty short on our supply

We got the
We the Carnival
The Carnival

We got the
Don't The Carnival
We the Carnival

And our begins

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

The legend of - PAPERMAN