Istanbul (not Constantinople) Lyrics

Istanbul (not Constantinople) lyrics

Istanbul (Not Constantinople)

 

 -Artists: The Four Lads

 -peak Billboard position # 10 in 1953

 -Words by Jimmy Kennedy and Music by Nat Simon

 

 Istanbul was Constantinople

 Now it's Istanbul not Constantinople

 Been a long time gone

 Old Constantinople's still has Turkish delight

 On a moonlight night

 

 Evr'y gal in Constantinople

 Is a Miss-stanbul, not Constantinople

 So if you've 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)

 

 Take me back to Constantinople

 No, you can't go back to Constantinople

 Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople

 Why did Constantinople get the works?

 That's nobody's business but the Turks'

 

 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)

 

 Take me back to Constantinople

 No, you can't go back to Constantinople

 Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople

 Why did Constantinople get the works?

 That's nobody's business but the Turks'

 

 'stanbul!!

 

 Transcribed by Robin Hood