In the table of metres Haluk Yücel prepared, one row has been left empty: "Bahçelerde bamiye / Bayılıyom yemiye." The table of genres enters it as a kırık hava, a metred melody, that is, yet it has no mark in any of the nine columns of the table of metres. Its two-line title, which names okra by the local form "bamiye", is the only piece of its words that remains.

Catalogue Data

  • Repertoire no.: none; not registered under the Amasya region in the TRT repertoire
  • Region: Amasya
  • Genre: kırık hava
  • Metre: not marked in the source
  • Makam: not given
  • Source person, collector, place and date of collection: not written
  • Words and music: anonymous
  • Source publication: Haluk Yücel, Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 22 (2018), Table 5 (p. 379), Table 6 (p. 382)
  • Location in the archive: could not be determined
  • Link: there is no TRT link; the article

Lyrics

Bahçelerde bamiye
Bayılıyom yemiye

Put plainly: "There is okra in the gardens, I love to eat it." "Bamiye" is a pronunciation of bamya (okra) close to its Arabic original, and "bayılıyom" and "yemiye" are dialect forms of bayılıyorum (I adore) and yemeye (to eat). The two lines have seven syllables each and rhyme on "-miye". What follows these two lines is unknown; the full words of the song and its score appear in no printed or online source.

Story

No published story tells where, or on whose lips, the song arose.

Musical Features

The empty metre columns are a small flaw that also fails to agree with the table's own totals. When the marks in the table are counted one by one, 27 rows come out in the 4/4 column and 12 in the free column; Yücel, however, writes in his text that 28 songs are in 4/4 and 11 in free metre. On the row directly above, "Esmer güzelleri gelip, geçerken", two columns at once (4/4 and 8/8) are marked. Since the article does not explain these discrepancies, the metre of "Bahçelerde bamiye" remains uncertain in the source; its scale is not stated either.

Performers and Recordings

Okra turns up once more in the list: "Bamiyeyi ekerim", in 2/4, is also among the songs Yücel counts. Whether the two share a melody, or one carries on the other, the article does not reveal. Nor is it written in whose voice "Bahçelerde bamiye" was taken, so no documented performance can be pointed to. The melodies of the province are described within a wide frame in The Melody of Yeşilırmak.

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