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 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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 Istanbul!
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 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!