Origins: Istanbul (Not Constantinople)

Subject: Chords Add: ISTANBUL (NOT CONSTANTINOPLE) (4 Lads)
From: chico
Date: 08 Jan 06 - 01:59 AM

  Am                    (E7)
  Istanbul was Constantinople
  Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
          E7
  Been a long time gone, Constantinople
            Am                   E7
  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
  
       Am  E7   Am
  Even old New York
  Was once New Amsterdam
   F°
  Why they changed it I can't say
   E7
  People just liked it better that way
    
  So 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'
    
  Do do do, do-do-do dododododo
     Oh, oh-oh-oh...
  Do do do, do-do-do dododododo
  Do do do, do-do-do dododododo
  Do - Istanbul
   
   Em/maj7 
  Itstanbul!

Subject: RE: Origins: You can't go back to Constantinople
From: open mike
Date: 08 Jan 06 - 01:22 AM

this was also done more recently by trout fishing in america
see here: http://www.troutmusic.com/bio.htm
although when i looked thru their albums i could only find these songs ..with geographical reference to plasces in the middle or far east
Dead Egyptian Blues
Last days of Pompeii

Subject: RE: Origins: You can't go back to Constantinople
From: Charley Noble
Date: 07 Jan 06 - 10:13 PM

LOL

Where was I in 1953?

Charley Noble

Subject: Lyr Add: ISTANBUL (NOT CONSTANTINOPLE) (Four Lads)
From: Peace
Date: 07 Jan 06 - 10:10 PM

Istanbul (Not Constantinople)

-Artists: The Four Lads
-peak Billboard position # 10 in 1953
-Words by Jimmy Kennedy and Music by 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

Evr'y 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!!

Subject: Origins: You can't go back to Constantinople
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 07 Jan 06 - 10:08 PM

I tried some searching, didn't find anything.

Does anybody know the origin of this song?