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- Istanbul (Not Constantinople)
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- -Artists: The Four Lads
- -peak Billboard position # 10 in 1953
- -Words by Jimmy Kennedy and Music by Nat Simon
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- 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
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- Evr'y gal in Constantinople
- Is a Miss-stanbul, not Constantinople
- So if you've date in Constantinople
- She'll be waiting in Istanbul
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- Even old New York was once New Amsterdam
- Why they changed it, I can't say
- (People just liked it better that way)
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- 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'
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- < instrumental interlude> Istanbul!!
- < instrumental interlude> Istanbul!!
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- Even old New York was once New Amsterdam
- Why they changed it, I can't say
- (People just liked it better that way)
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- 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'
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- 'stanbul!!
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- Transcribed by Robin Hood
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