Istanbul (Not Constantinople)

Album

Single

Label

Columbia Records

Genre

Novelty

Media Type

78

Entered Chart

Jan 2, 1954

Peak Date

Jan 9, 1954

Released

September 1953

Catalog #

Columbia - 4-40082

B-Side

I Should Have Told You Long Ago

intro
Istanbul was Constantinople
Now it's Istanbul not Constantinople
Been a long time gone
Old Constantinople's still has Turkish delight
On a moonlit night
verse
Every gal in Constantinople
Lives in Istanbul, not Constantinople
So if you've a date in Constantinople
She'll be waiting in Istanbul
pre-chorus
Even old New York was once New Amsterdam
Why they changed it, I can't say
(People just liked it better that way)
chorus
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'
hook
Istanbul!
Istanbul!
pre-chorus
Even old New York was once New Amsterdam
Why they changed it, I can't say
(People just liked it better that way)
chorus
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!