The Legend of Norman Paperman/Kinja
Jimmy Buffett

Dis is da Legend of Norman Papuhman
Tale from de islands we'll share
Chasin' illusions can get quite confusin'
Is it a dream or a nightmare?
Dis is da Legend of Norman Papuhman
Tale from de tropics we'll tell
Chasin' illusions can get quite confusin'
Cause heaven can turn into hell

Kinja's the name of the island
It's been Kinja for two hundred years
But remember paradise
Doesn't come without a price
Let me make that abundantly clear

Kinja, our beautiful island
In a windward archipelago
We've been English, French and Dutch
Never seemed to matter much
Now we're officially Amerigo

We're Kinja
Still Kinja
Our Kinja

Our ancestors came in the slave ships
To work for the privileged few
Who wore Paris fashions
And lived in pink mansions
While we huddled in shacks of bamboo

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

Chorus

Hurricanes and a World War or Two
We're Kinja
Still Kinja
Our Kinja

We're Kinja
Still Kinja
Our Kinja

Mr. Churchill had to get some destroyers
To put old Hitler six feet below
FDR he pulled a nifty
Got our island just for fifty
And da Limeys dey pack up and go
We dance through the streets in celebration
Da fireworks dey light up da sky
We got hot dogs and highways
Got Fords and Chevrolets
Not to mention the Fourth of July
Not to mention the Fourth of July

We're Kinja
Still Kinja
Our Kinja

We're Kinja
Still Kinja
Our Kinja

Now the Yankees, they come wid der dollars
It's a beehive of activity
Sell dem crawfish and rum
Keep dem dizzy and numb
Oh we're liken' this prosperity
We got new holidays for celebration
We got new laws, but no one complies
we got crawfish and mangos
Calypso and tangos
Ahhh, but we short on our watah supply
Mighty short on our watah supply

We got the Carnival
We love the Carnival
The Kinja Carnival
Carnival
We got the Carnival
Don't stop the Carnival
We love the Carnival
And our story begins

Dis is da legend of Norman Papuhman
Tale from the tropics we'll tell
Chasin' illusions can get quite confusin'
'Cause heaven can turn into hell!

The legend of - Norman Paperman


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  A Frenchman For the Night   A Lot To Drink About   A Love Song   A Love Song (From a Different Point of View)   A Mile High In Denver   A Pirate Looks At 40   A Pirate Looks At Forty   A Sailor's Christmas   A Sailor's Christmas   A Sailors Christas   A Salty Piece Of Land   A Thousand Steps to Nowhere   Ace   Ace ( In Album High Cumberland Jubilee)   African Friend   Ain't He a Genius   Ain't He A Genius?   Ain't He A Genius?   All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth   All The Ways I Want You   Altered Boy   Another Saturday Night   Anything, Anytime, Anywhere   Apocalypso   Asshole Song   Autour Du Rocher   Baby, It's Cold Outside   Baby's Gone Shoppin'   Baby's Gone Shopping   Baby's Gone Shoppin'   Back Of The Bus   Back To The Island   Ballad Of Skip Wiley   Ballad of Spider John   Bama Breeze   Banana Republics   Banana Wind   Bank of Bad Habits   Barefoot Children   Barefoot Children in the Rain   Barefootin'   Barometer Soup   Beach House On The Moon   Beautiful Swimmers   Bend a Little   Bend a Little (In Album High Cumberland Jubilee)   Beyond The End   Big Rig   Big Top   Bigger Than The Both Of Us   Biloxi   Blowin' In The Wind   Blue Guitar   Blue Heaven Rendezvous   Boat Drinks   Boats To Build   Bob Roberts Society Band   Boomerang Love   Brahma Fear   Brand New Country Star   Breathe In, Breathe Out, Move On   Bring Back the Magic   Brown Eyed Girl   Buffet Hotel   Burn That Bridge   Calaloo   California Promises   Captain America   Carnival World   Cattle Truckin'   Champagne Si, Agua No   Champagne Si', Agua No   Champagne Si’, Agua No   Changes In Latitudes Changes In Attitudes   Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes   Changing Channels   Chanson Pour Les Petits Enfants   Cheeseburger In Paradise   Cheeseburger In Paradise(In Album Son Of A Son Of ...   Christmas in the Caribbean   CHRISTMAS ISLAND   Cinco De Mayo In Memphis   Cliches   Coast of Carolina   Coast Of Marseilles   Coastal Confessions   Coconut Telegraph   Colour Of The Sun   Come Monday   Come Monday( In Album Living And Dying In 3/4 Time...   Come Monday( In Album Living And Dying In 3\/4 Tim...   Come To The Moon   Coming Around   Conky Tonkin'   Conky Tonkin'   Countin' the Cows Every Day   Countin' The Cows Every Day   Cowboy in The Jungle   Creola   Cuban Crime of Passion   Cultural Infidel   Cumberland High Dilemma   Dallas   Death Of An Unpopular Poet   Death Valley Lives   Death Valley Lives(In Album High Cumberland Jubile...   Defying Gravity   Delaney Talks to Statues   Desdemonas Building A Rocket Ship   Desperation Samba   Desperation Samba (Halloween In Tijuana)   Diamond as Big as the Ritz   Dickhead   Distantly In Love   Dixie Diner   Domicile   Domino College   Don Chu Know   Don't Bug Me   Don't Chu-know   Don't Chu-know   Don’t Bug Me   Door Number Three   Dreamsicle   Duke's On Sunday   Duke's On Sunday   Ellis Dee   Elvis Imitators   Elvis Presley Blues   England   England (In Album High Cumberland Jubilee)   Escape   Everlasting Moon   Everybody's Got a Cousin in Miami   Everybody's On The Phone   Everybody's On The Run   Everybody's Talkin'   Everybody's Got A Cousin In Miami   Everybody's On The Phone   Everybody's On The Run   False Echoes   False Echos   Far Side of the World   Fat Person Man   Fifteen Gears   Fifteen Gears Instrumental   Fins   Fins ( In Album Volcano)   First Look   Flesh & Bone   Flesh and Bone   Floridays   Floridays (Reggae Version)   Fool Button   Frank & Lola   Frank And Lola   Frenchman for the Night   Fruitcakes   Funeral Dance   Funky Kingston   Gentleman of Leisure   God Don't Own A Car   God Don't Own a Car (No Wheels)   God Don't Own A Car   God's Own Drunk   God's Own Drunk   Good Guys Win   Grapefruit - Juicy Fruit   Grapefruit-juicy Fruit   Gravity Storm   Great Filling Station Holdup   Great Hear   Great Heart   Green Flash at Sunset   Growing Older but Not Up   Gypsies in The Palace   Gypsies In The Palace (In Album Last Mango In Pari...   Happily Ever After   Happily Ever After (Now And Then)   Happy Christmas   HAPPY CHRISTMAS (WAR IS OVER)   Happy Xmas (War Is Over)   Havana Daydreamin'   Havana Daydreamin'   He Went To Paris   Hello Texas   Henny's Song: The Key To My Man   Henny’s Song: The Key To My Man   Here We Are   Hey Good Lookin'   Hey Good Lookin'   Hey Good Looking   High Cumberland Dilemma   High Cumberland Jubilee   High Cumberland Jubilee \/ Comin' Down Slow   High Cumberland Jubilee/Comin' Down Slow   Hippolyte's Habitat   Hippolyte's Habitat (Qui Moun' Qui)   Hippolyte's Habitat   Ho Ho Ho & a Bottle of Rhum   HO HO HO AND A BOTTLE OF RHUM   Ho, Ho, Ho, And A Bottle Of Rum   Holida   Holiday   Homemade Music   Honey Do   Honey Do(In Album One Particular Harbour)   Hula Girl At Heart   I Can't Be Your Hero Today   I Can't Be Your Hero Today   I Don't Know & I Don't Care   I Don't Know and I Don't Care   I Don't Know And I Don't Care   I Have Found Me A Home   I Heard I Was In Town   I Love The Now   I Use To Have Money One Time   I Used To Have Money One Time   I Want to Go Back to Cartagena   I Want to Go Back to Cartagena - Spanish Version   I Wave Bye Bye   I Will Play For Gumbo   I Wish Lunch Could Last Forever   I'LL BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS   I'll Be Home For Christmas   If I Could Just Get It On Paper   If I had A Boat   If It All Falls Down   If The Phone Doesn't Ring It's Me   If The Phone Doesn't Ring, It's Me   If The Phone Doesn't Ring, It's Me   If you like pina coladas   In My Room   In the Shelter   In The Shelter ( In Album High Cumberland Jubilee)   Incommunicado   Intro-The Legend Of Norman Paperman/Kinja   Intro-The Legend Of Norman Paperman\/Kinja   Island   Island Fever   It's All About The Water   It's Five O'Clock Somewhere   It's Five O'Clock Somewhere [#]   It's Midnight & I'm Not Famous Yet   It's Midnight And I'm Not Famous Yet   It's My Job   It's Five O'clock Somewhere   It's Midnight And I'm Not Famous Yet   It's My Job   It’s All About The Water   Jamaica Farewell   Jamaica Mistaica   Jimmy Dreams   Jingle Bell Rock   JINGLE BELLS   Jolly Mon   Jolly Mon Sing   Jolly Mon Sing   Just An Old Truth Teller   Kick It In Second Wind   King of Somewhere Hot   Kinja Rules   Knee Deep   Knees Of My Heart   L'Air De La Louisiane   L'air de la Louisianne   L'air De La Louisiane   La Vie Dansante   L’air De La Louisianne   Lady I Can't Explain   Lady I Can't Explain   Lage Nom Ai   Landfall   Last Man Standing   Last Mango In Paris   Last Mango In Paris (In Album Last Mango In Paris)   Left Me With a Nail to Drive   License To Chill   Life is Just a Tire Swing   Life Short Call Now   Lip Service   Little Miss Magic   Livin' It Up   Livin' It Up   Livingston Saturday Night   Livingston Saturday Night ( In Album Son Of A Son ...   Livingston's Gone to Texas   Livingston's Gone to Texas (In Album High Cumberla...   Livingston's Gone To Texas (In Album Living And Dy...   Livingston's Gone To Texas   Lone Palm   Lot to Drink About   Love & Luck   Love And Luck   Love In Decline   Love in the Library   Lovely Cruise   Lovely Day   Lucky Star   Lucky Stars   Mademoiselle (Voulez Vous Danser)   Mademoiselle Voulez-Vous Danser   Makin' Music For Money   Makin' Music For Money   Manana   Margaritaville   Margaritaville (With Lost Verse)   Margaritaville Live (Lost Verse Included)   Math Suks   Meet Me In Memphis   MELE KALIKIMAKA   Mental Floss   Mermaid in the Night   Merry Christmas, Alabama   MERRY CHRISTMAS, ALABAMA (NEVER FAR FROM HOME)   Mexico   Middle of the Night   Migration   Miss You So Badly   Money Back Guarantee   Morris' Nightmare   Morris' Nightmare   Mr. Spaceman   My Barracuda   My Head Hurts, My Feet Stink And I Don't Love Jesu...   My Head Hurts, My Feet Stink And I Don't Love...   My Head Hurts, My Feet Stink, & I Don't Love J...   My Head Hurts, My Feet Stink, And I Don't Love Jes...   My Lovely Lady   Natives Are Restless Tonight   Nautical Wheelers   No Plane On Sunday   Nobody from Nowhere   Nobody Speaks To The Captain No More   Nothin' But a Breeze   Nothing But A Breeze   Off to See the Lizard   Oldest Surfer On The Beach   On A Slow Boat To China   One Particular Harbour   One Particular Harbour(In Album One Particular Har...   Only Time Will Tell   Overkill   Oysters & Pearls   Oysters and Pearls   Pacing The Cage   Paradise   Party At The End Of The World   Pascagoula Run   Peanut Butter Conspiracy   Pencil Thin Moustache   Pencil Thin Mustache   Permanent Reminder of a Temporary Feeling   Perrier Blues   Piece Of Work   Pirate Looks at Forty   Playin' The Loser Again   Please Bypass This Heart   Please Take Your Drunken Fifteen Year Old Girlfrie...   Pre - 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