Istanbul (Not Constantinople) - The Four Lads

Written by：Jimmy Kennedy/Nat Simon

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