Istambul - The Four Lads

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istanbul

 

Istanbul (Not Constantinople)

 

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'

 

Istanbul!!

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istanbul

 

       The Four Lads in 1963