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 Third Island, but the islanders shortened 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 life on a tropical island? Our story is about a man who did it - a real person, whose 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 dream or a

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

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

Sanders
Kinja's the of the island
been Kinja for over two hundred years
But remember
Doesn't come without a
Let me make that clear
Kinja, our beautiful
In a archipeligo
We've been English, and Dutch
Never seemed to much
Now we're Amerigo

We're
Still
Our

(Sheila, chef at the Gull Club)

Our came 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 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
Still
Our

Kinja
Still
Our

(Gilbert, of the Gull Reef Club)

Mr. Churchill had to get some
To put old hitler six below
FDR he a nifty
Got our for just fifty
And do limeys dey up and go

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

Not to mention the of July
We're
Kinja
Our

We're
Kinja
Our

(Senator Pullman, the big enchilada)

Senator
Now the Yankees, they wid der dollars
a beehive of activity
Sell dem and rum
Keep dem and numb
Oh we're liken' prosperity

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

Mighty short on our watah

We got the
We the Carnival
The Carnival

We got the
Stop The Carnival
We love the

And our story

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

The of - NORMAN PAPERMAN