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

By Buffett, 1996
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 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 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 we'll
illusions can get quite confusin'
Is it a dream or a

Dis is the legend of Papuhman
Tale from the islands tell

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

Sanders
the name of the island
It's been Kinja for over two years
But paradise
come without a price
Let me make abundantly clear
Kinja, our island
In a windward
We've been English, French and
Never seemed to matter
Now officially Amerigo

We're
Still
Our

(Sheila, chef at the Reef Club)

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

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

Hurricanes and a War or Two
Kinja
Still
Our

Kinja
Still
Our

(Gilbert, gondolier of the Gull Club)

Mr. had to get some destroyers
To put old hitler six feet
FDR he a nifty
Got our island for fifty
And do dey pack up and go

We dance through the in celebration
Da fireworks dey up da sky
We got and highways
Got and Chevrolets
Not to mention the Forth of

Not to the Forth of July
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 liken' 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 short on our supply

We got the
We love the
The Carnival

We got the
Don't The Carnival
We love the

And our begins

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

The legend of - PAPERMAN