THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)"

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Istanbul was Constantinople
Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night

Every gal in Constantinople
Lives in Istanbul, not Constantinople
So if you've a 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

So take me back to Constantinople
No, you can't go back to Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That's nobody's business but the Turks

Istanbul (Istanbul)
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

Istanbul was Constantinople
Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That's nobody's business but the Turks

So take me back to Constantinople
No, you can't go back to Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That's nobody's business but the Turks

Istanbul

Channel: Music
Uploaded: June 29, 2006 at 11:34 pm
Author: tubmanss

Length: 00:02:35
Rating: 4.75
Views: 979173

Tags: They Might Be Giants Istanbul Constantinople

Video Comments:
ITSKonstantinoupolis (November 18, 2008 at 7:56 pm)
Meirstein, the Greeks did name it Byzantium, surely in that you are right. And yes, the Romans did name it Constantinople, Constantine was an ethnic Greek, Roman Emperor. And ultimately the Roman Empire, becomes ever more Greek, and renamed, only by historians, the Byzantine Empire. Constantinople is and was a Greek city. Just like Byzantium was.
ITSKonstantinoupolis (November 18, 2008 at 7:52 pm)
The United States does not recognize it, you know why, they need the bases in Turkey, and modern strategic needs outweigh the nominal terms of history. Israel, wont piss off anybody, as they arent liked very much. I must agree that Greeks are also bias and nationalist, it is true, but they are still right, that it was a genocide. Although I must say, Greece is surrounded by land-thirsty Slavs(The Yugoslav "Macedonians"), and has tense relations with the comparatively massive Turkish Republic.
ZeCyBjK (November 18, 2008 at 6:56 pm)
istanbul... ;) no comment gayreek... puahahaha since 1453 - forever....
Meirstein (November 17, 2008 at 11:31 pm)
The Greeks didn't name it Constantinople, the Romans did. The Greeks named it Byzantium.
Meirstein (November 17, 2008 at 11:27 pm)
Greeks, you want this city? MOLON LABE!
raynor122 (November 17, 2008 at 12:14 pm)
yes you are right. it's illegal to call it genocide in turkey. it's not right. it shouldn't be illegal. but not calling it genocide in armenia, greece, switzerland and france is also illegal. so we are wrong but they are not different from us. also united states, united kingdom and israel don't even recognize it as genocide. it's not only turkey. if we didn't see so much hostility from these countries we could talk about it more freely but hostility triggers nationalism.
jellyfart777 (November 17, 2008 at 6:47 am)
my teacher sang it for us the other day
ITSKonstantinoupolis (November 17, 2008 at 3:55 am)
Guess who made it beautiful, guess the fuck who...the Greeks-Correct!
Seriously, if you respected the city you occupy, return it to the Greeks, so you can see at new heights, and unprecedented beauty.
ITSKonstantinoupolis (November 17, 2008 at 3:50 am)
scaleskin you Turkish barbarian, you may have more bombs to throw, but nothing else. The Greeks, though they deserve Constantinople, can by no means defeat the Turks in battle, that's honestly a joke. The Greeks need and deserve western support, but not JUST the Greeks, also the Armenians, perhaps even more. I know you don't believe that was a genocide (its basically illegal in turkey to believe that), but call it whatever, you committed genocide, and that should be unacceptable.
gibson0111 (November 17, 2008 at 1:41 am)
my teacher used this vid when we were in the rome section