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Istanbul (Not Constantinople)

from Up In The Borscht Belt by The Jews Brothers Band

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Istanbul was Constantinople
Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
Been a long time gone, old Constantinople
Still 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

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

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from Up In The Borscht Belt, released January 1, 2016

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The Jews Brothers Band Auckland, New Zealand

Twenty years ago, inspired by a klezmer tune playing on an Auckland café’s stereo, Hershal Herscher picked up his accordion and started playing the music his grandfather Harry had brought to New York from the Ukraine.

The rhythm he was pumping out acted like a magnet on three musician friends who were in the caf that day. From that nucleus The Jews Brothers Band was born. ... more

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