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

By Jimmy Buffett,
Jimmy Buffett explores new 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 exactly hostile to change, but he's not 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 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 of Norman Papuhman
Tale from the we'll share
Chasin can get quite confusin'
Is it a or a nightmare

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

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

Sanders
the name of the island
It's been Kinja for over two hundred
But remember
Doesn't without a price
Let me make that abundantly
Kinja, our island
In a windward
We've been English, and Dutch
Never seemed to much
Now we're Amerigo

We're
Kinja
Our

(Sheila, chef at the Reef Club)

Our came in the slave ships
To work for the few
Who wore Paris
and in pink mansions
While we huddled in of bamboo

Den da sugar beet us our freedom
With the of our God we got through
Insurrection, beheadin's, funerals and
and a World 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 feet
FDR he a nifty
Got our for just fifty
And do dey pack 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 Forth of
Kinja
Still
Our

Kinja
Still
Our

(Senator Pullman, the big enchilada)

Pullman
Now the Yankees, they come wid der
It's a of activity
Sell dem and rum
Keep dem dizzy and
Oh we're liken' this

We got new holidays for
We got new laws, but no one
We got and mangos
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
Stop The Carnival
We the Carnival

And our begins

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