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Four Lads adlı bir Kanadalı grubun 1953 tarihli komikli sözlü şarkısına konu olmuş şarkı, Istanbul (Not Constantinople) adlı bu şarkıyı, hala burası konstantinopolis'tir, burası bizimdir diye zortlanan Yunanlılarla karşılaşırsanız gönül rahatlığıyla çalıp mosmor edebilirsiniz.*
They Might be Giants tarafından yorumlanan versiyonu en popüler olanıdır.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsQrKZcYtqg

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Istanbul was Constantinople
Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night

Every gal in Constantinople
Lives in Istanbul, not Constantinople
So if you've a date in Constantinople
She'll be waiting in Istanbul

Even old New York was once New Amsterdam
Why they changed it I can't say
People just liked it better that way

So take me back to Constantinople
No, you can't go back to Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That's nobody's business but the Turks

Istanbul (Istanbul)
Istanbul (Istanbul)

Even old New York was once New Amsterdam
Why they changed it I can't say
People just liked it better that way

Istanbul was Constantinople
Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That's nobody's business but the Turks

So take me back to Constantinople
No, you can't go back to Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That's nobody's business but the Turks

Istanbul