Katinaki mou gia sena me skotosane mesa ston teke tou Foti me xaplosane. Me varesane kale mou re me babesia ach, tris machairies mou dosan mesa stin kardia. Etsi hathika gia sena Katinaki mou Ap to davatzi pou iches vre manaki mou. ========================================== My Katinaki (Katie) it's for you they killed me they laid me out in Fotis' dive. They hit me with a cowardly ambush ach, three stabs they gave me to the heart That's how I was wasted for you, my Katinaki by your pimp, my sweet doll First recorded by Rosa Eschenazy, 1932. Turkish and Greek tunes were habitually interchanged with new lyrics. It still happens today to a lesser degree. However I think that in this case the Turkish "Çanakkale" came first to commemorate the events at Gallipoli; then some 10-15 years later the tune was borrowed for a typical Greek refugee (from Asia Minor) song, dealing with the criminal underworld as so many of their songs did.
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