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Jimmy Buffett
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By Jimmy Buffett, 1996
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Jimmy Buffett explores new creative 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.
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Narrator
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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 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.
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Sanders
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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 true adventure has become a legend here in the Caribbean. Welcome one and all to THE LEGEND OF NORMAN PAPERMAN.
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Ensemble
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Dis is the legend of Norman Papuhman
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Tale from the islands we'll share
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Chasin illusions can get quite confusin'
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Is it a dream or a nightmare
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Women
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Dis is the legend of Norman Papuhman
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Tale from the islands we'll tell
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Men
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Chasin illusions can get quite confusin'
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Cause heaven can turn into hell.
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Sanders [Sings]
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Kinja's the name of the island
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It's been Kinja for over two hundred years
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But remember paradise
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Doesn't come without a price
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Let me make that abundantly clear
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Kinja, our beautiful island
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In a windward archipeligo
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We've been English, French and Dutch
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Never seemed to matter much
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Now we're officially Amerigo
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Ensemble
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We're Kinja
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Still Kinja
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Our Kinja
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Sanders
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(Sheila, chef at the Gull Reef Club)
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Sheila
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Our ancestors came in the slave ships
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To work for the privileged few
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Who wore Paris fashions
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and lived in pink mansions
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While we huddled in shacks of bamboo
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Den da sugar beet bring us our freedom
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With the help of our God we got through
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Insurrection, beheadin's, funerals and weddin's
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Hurricanes and a World War or Two
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Chorus
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Hurricanes and a World War or Two
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We're Kinja
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Still Kinja
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Our Kinja
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We're Kinja
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Still Kinja
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Our Kinja
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Sanders
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(Gilbert, gondolier of the Gull Reef Club)
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Gilbert
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Mr. Churchill had to get some destroyers
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To put old hitler six feet below
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FDR he pulled a nifty
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Got our island for just fifty
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And do limeys dey pack up and go
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We dance through the streets in celebration
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Da fireworks dey light up da sky
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We got hotdogs and highways
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Got Fords and Chevrolets
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Not to mention the Forth of July
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Ensemble
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Not to mention the Forth of July
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We're Kinja
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Still Kinja
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Our Kinja
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We're Kinja
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Still Kinja
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Our Kinja
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Sanders
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(Senator Pullman, the island's big enchilada)
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Senator Pullman
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Now the Yankees, they come wid der dollars
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It's a beehive of activity
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Sell dem crawfish and rum
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Keep dem dizzy and numb
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Oh we're liken' this prosperity
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We got new holidays for celebration
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We got new laws, but no one complies
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We got crawfish and mangos
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Calypso and tangos
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Ahhh, but we short on our watah supply
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Ensemble
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Mighty short on our watah supply
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We got the Carnival
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We love the Carnival
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The Kinja Carnival
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Carnival
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We got the Carnival
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Don't Stop The Carnival
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We love the Carnival
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And our story begins
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Dis is da legend of Norman Papuhman
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Tale from de tropics we'll tell
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Chasin illusions can get quite confusin'
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Cause heaven can turn into hell!
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The legend of - NORMAN PAPERMAN
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