Four Lads - Istanbul (Not Constantinople) Lyrics

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

Every 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

• Cindy Denny

  My son was one of two in his class to be picked as a participant in the annual Spelling Bowl! YaY! And, Constantinople is one of the words on his study list... so, I looked up this old song from the 1950's? I cannot believe I knew most of the words!

• Jeanne Brandon

  Here are the lyrics Dari!