It's very beautiful song, i like it to hear it in all versions, i don't care about the origins of the song, i am from bulgaria, and i think that the song belongs to us, bosnians,bulgarian,serbians,greeks, turks,albanese, everybody who likes to sing it. Greetings to everybody on the Balkans, muslim or hristian brother

All I know is this is such a beautiful song, and to think my ancestors listened to it is priceless

Bir çok kültürün paylaştığı ortak bir ezgiye sahip olması bu canım coğrafyanın getirmiş olduğu nice güzel şeylerden sadece birisi. Söyleyen de ve söylenen de öylesine hoş geliyor ki kulağa, insan müptezeli gibi defalarca aynı parçaya takışıp kalıveriyor.

Aπό ξένο τόπο κι απ’ αλαργινό ήρθ’ ένα κορίτσι, φως μου, 18 χρονώ Ούτε στην πόρτα βγαίνει ούτε στο στενό ούτε στο παραθύρι φως μου, δυο λόγια να της πω Έχει μαύρα μάτια και σγουρά μαλλιά και στο μάγουλό του, φως μου, έχει μιαν ελιά Δε μου τη δανείζεις δε μου την πουλάς την ελίτσα που `χεις, φως μου, και με τυραννάς Δε σου τη δανείζω, δε σου την πουλώ μόν’ να τη χαρίσω θέλω σε κείνον π’ αγαπώ

I love this folk song dating back to the early Ottoman days. An Arabic version for the same melody existed in Baghdad, Iraq for at least 150 years.

From a foreign and distant place There came a girl, my light, 18 years old She doesn't come out in the door or the allay Nor to my window my light, to tell her a coule of words She has black eyes and curly hair And on his chick, my light, has a beauty spot You don't lent her to me, you don't sell it to me The beauty spot, my light, and you torture me I don't lent it to you, I don't sell it to you I just want to give it away to the one I love

Skocax'tan geldim.

τι φωνη Θεε μου!!!...Γλυκερια.....

Odlična stvar koja u svim verzijama zvuči fenomenalno. Miloš - Smederevo,Serbia

Cok güzel olmus, πολύ καλή

@TheLastSpartan67 The turkish version is called "Uskudar'a Giden Iken"

Nice Turkish melody !!!!!!!!!

kanibalizete to tragoudi zwa me tis ahdies sas. mpravo!!!!!!

The melody is from everywhere. Turkey, Greece, Bosnia, the Middle East, and has even been heard in Sephardic Jewish communities. You can't say it's just from one place... it is believed to have been a Mehter, but it is likely that it existed before then

Euxaristw :)

Ι know because byzantine music did not disappear, it just envolved. Actually the only good thing of the Ottoman Occupation in greece is that we got to preserve our culture almost identical till today. Such songs have the same basis with medieval greek psalms. As for the rest I agree. ;)

Katibim şarkısını böyle dinlemek pek güzel..

it doesnt matter where it comes from ! :)

@TheArhai Well, i actually saw it on norwegian TV, NRK a long time ago, and there was a bulgarian woman travelling around the balkans and nearby, how everyone had the same melody, but different lyrics and so on. I'll see if I can find out the name. Cheers!

Is it "Uskudara Giderken"? Eartha Kitt recorded a version called "A Turkish Tale". It sounds like the same tune, but it's hard to tell because this is much slower.

@Tarikatlar Can you please send me the link for documentary or name, Im doing a research on this topic? Im from Serbia and I know the Serbian version.

@mpanitsos this song u can heard in all balcans contrys: macedonia, bulgaria, serbia, bosnia, albania ... so haw can be greek ????

No problem...

Better than Turkish version. Great song!

@pvrach Can you please give me some more info on the subject? I should be singing this tune in different languages in Scotland on May, it would be great to know more!!!

This melody isnt Turkish.... is Greek and its origins are from Smyrna, (today's İzmir) It is totally Greek....if you want you can check it....

Add - Bengali: "Shukno Patar Nupur Paye"

VERRY NICE TURKISH MELODY .

All you need to watch "Чия е тази песен?" ("Whose Is This Song?") movie. Enlightening,

Well amigos... i dunno and dont care if its Turkish or greek... i just enjoy the song.. but the song is from istanbul...not izmir , really..even you can see this song in the the list of songs " Tragoudia Tis Polis/ İstanbul şarkıları / Songs of Istanbul" , plus thats not smyrnian tune... thats really constantinoplic! =)

@serkaneker45 Instabul=eis tin poli (you can easily see the derivation. One is Turkish the other Greek). It means to The City . City being the short name for Constantinoupolis=Constantine's City=THE CITY. It's like what bay area people say when they're headed to the city, meaning San Francisco for example.

It probably is because Uskudara has come up several times in the Related Videos for this video.

@xyzkids27 hey file mou , that wasnt my point... =) i know what istanbul or kwnstantinoupolh means... i just meant that the song is not from Smyrna... the song is from KON/POLI =) as far as i know... cheers!

Apó kséno tópo ki ap' alaryinó írth' éna korítsi, fos mou, dekaokto khronó Oúte stin pórta vghaíni, oúte sto stenó oúte sto parathír,i fos mou, dhio lóyia na tis po Échi mavra mátia kai sghourá malliá kai sto mághouló tou, fos mou, échi mian eliá Dhe mou ti dhanízis dhen mou tin poulás tin elítsa pou 'chis, fos mou, kai me tirannás Dhe sou ti dhanízo, dhen sou tin pouló món' na ti kharíso thélo se kínon p' aghapó

xaxaaaa

it does not belong to nations, but to people. It was people who wrote it and people who shared it. Not Turkish, not Greek. It happened. That is all.

nice turkish a song

This is alsoSerbian song :Aj ruse kose curo imas

The fact that we are people as well as that the Turks once conquered Greece cannot erase a culture and or civilization which is thousand years old. Such songs come directly from byzantine music and melodies. Check the secular or church music of medieval greece and see.

Hello Steffi Papaleo. I jujst read your request.Here are the lyrics as you asked for. Note that every sentense is sang twice Apo kseno topo ki apalargino (not exactly the sound of a "g" more like a "y" as in yes) x2 irth ena koritsi fos mou thekaohto hronon x2 Oute sti porta vyeni ("y"sounds as in yes) oute sto steno x2 Oute sto parathiri fos mou thio loyia na tis po x2 Evya kori tou yialou astro labero x2 Harise mou tin elia sou pou his sto lemo x2 Then sou ti harizo fos mou then sou ti poulo x2 mon ti thelo tin elitsa na se tirano x2

Σου άρεσε πολύ. Μας το είχες αφιερώσει.

@TheLastSpartan67 - Turkish: "Katibim" - Albanian from Korçë? - Bosnian: "Zašto suza u mom oku" - Macedonian: "Paco Drenovcanko" - Serbian: "Dva Goluba" - Bulgarian: (...) Whose else? :D Musician Ilja (from Skopje) says: It is not macedonian!

All the Balkan peoples (Greeks, Macedonians, Albanians, Serbians, Bosnians, Bulgarians) would like to have it as own. Why? Because it is a very very beautiful song. I must dissapoint them. Üsküdara is an original Turkish song and have a lot of versions through Balkan.

@ISTORICAR Üsküdar'a gider iken..

@mpanitsos Of course it is greek. What the Ottoman Occupation did, is to put the greek tradition in the refrigerator. If you listen to secular byzantine music, the melody is almost identical to the traditional greek songs, especially those of Asia Minor. And if you listen to the saved ancient greek pieces of music, secular or religious, is really similar to the byzantine, that is the byzantine musical tradition is the ''daughter'' of the ancient greek. The continuity is stunning!!

@TheLastSpartan67 üsküdara gider iken

:) i cant understand some greek people wants to take every turkish cultural meterial as a greek culture... why? where is usküdar? who had "katip"? learn origin of lyrics before talk.or comment

Greece: "Apo xeno topo" Makedonia:"Oi ti Paco Drenovchanke" Bosnia: "Pogledaj me,Anadolko" OJ Bulgaria: "Iasen mesec veche izgriava" Serbia: "Ruse kose curo imas" Turkey: "Uskudara gider iken"

Who could post the lyrics, in latin alphabet?

not Macedonia...FYROM is the name of Scopjia

@vaszosz there is an interesting documentary on the topic, but i really don't care, the melody is nice, but I don't appreciate jewish influences. So keep it "turk" with your masonic ataSHIRK, elhamdulilah.

At the risk can feel racist, if confirmed the existence of universal life, I can say. With Leaves icily indifferent to you and I highly dangerous for the man himself, any limitation of concept Homeland under the framework of .... Earth.

Not FYROM, but former yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, ergo Macedonia, Macedonian.

@mpanitsos this song u can heard in all balcans contrys: macedonia, bulgaria, serbia, bosnia, albania ... so haw can be greek ????

@Tarikatlar Can you please send me the link for documentary or name, Im doing a research on this topic? Im from Serbia and I know the Serbian version.