Title: "İstanbul'un neresindensin?"
Composer: Ünal Narçın
Textwriter: Âşık Yener
Genre: Classical Turkish Music
Makâm: Nihâvend Fantezi
Usûl: Sofyân



I knew a pretty girl in our famous town;
her eyes were purely green and her hair was brown.
I asked her smilingly: "Where are you girl from?"
She answered, she lives now in beautiful Bonn.

In a September day I saw her on Rhine;
in this moment I thought: "You should be just mine!"
Notes to the song:
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The wind from the river overflew her hair.
And I whispered again: "We could be one pair!"

This my silly shy heart can't tell her real love;
my love is much bigger than the sky above!
Ever shyly I think: "Just this way go on;
stay always loveless and live in lifeful Bonn!"

After very long years; I feel so lonesome;
sitting on one Rhine banch and my heart awesome!
Watching the flowing Rhine which is everblue;
I can not stop myself thinking about you!



From my voice in third languages:

TR: "Alazlı'nın en güzeli"

Türkçe güfteDE: "Die Schönste in Bonn"

Songtext in Deutsch



Here is the original songtext:



Duruşun, andırır âsil soylumu;
Hisar-Kuruçeşme, Sahilboylu mu?

Ünal NarçınArnavutköylü mü; Ortaköylü mü?
Kız! Sen, İstanbul’un neresindensin?

Bilmem; sözlü müsün; ya nişânlı mı.
Sevgilin, yaşlı mı; delikanlı mı?
Emirgân-Bebekli, Âşiyânlı mı?
Kız! Sen, İstanbul’un neresindensin?

Başında esen, kavakyeli mi?
Gözünden akan, aşkın seli mi?
Sarıyer-Tarabya, İstinyeli mi?
Kız! Sen, İstanbul’un neresindensin?

Soyun, buralı mı; başka yerden mi?
Huyun, âşığına küsenlerden mi?
Yeşilyurt-Florya, Bakırköy’den mi?
Kız! Sen, İstanbul’un neresindensin?

My Turkish Songs in English

My last journey (24.01.2021)
Pair in affair (22.11.2020)
Searching for solace (23.10.2020)
Pretty thing! (06.09.2020)
Beautiful Mulâ (16.07.2020)
Night of longing (24.06.2020)
Hush! Hush! (06.06.2020)
Your green eyes (16.06.2020)
Like an autumn rose (09.06.2020)
This is true love (06.06.2020)
Season of love (29.04.2020)
Love at first sight (26.04.2020)
Secret love (24.04.2020)
A pretty girl in Bonn (16.04.2020)
Eyes (13.04.2020)
Life (09.04.2020)
Color of my eyes (05.04.2020)
Car in fire! (03.04.2020)
Everlasting love (20.03.2020)
Enough! (17.03.2020)
Your pretty eyes (13.03.2020)
Love heat in the club (08.03.2020)
Longing in September (06.03.2020)
My big love Aysun (05.03.2020)
Deepest winter of life (02.03.2020)
My special love (29.02.2020)