"Bamiyeyi ekerim" ("I sow the okra") is a title that speaks in the first person singular and tells of sowing okra. It entered the list of Amasya folk songs Haluk Yücel published in 2018 as a kırık hava, written in a two-beat metre, 2/4. Okra is named in one more title on the list, "Bahçelerde bamiye / Bayılıyom yemiye", but the two songs are not side by side; they stand on rows far apart in the table.

Catalogue Data

  • Repertoire no.: none; not in the Amasya section of the TRT repertoire
  • Region: Amasya
  • Genre: kırık hava
  • Metre: 2/4
  • Makam: not stated
  • Source person, collector, place and date of collection: not in the source
  • Words and music: anonymous
  • Source publication: Haluk Yücel, 2018, Table 5 (p. 379) and Table 6 (p. 382)
  • Location in the archive: unknown
  • Link: there is no TRT link; Yücel's article

Lyrics

Bamiyeyi ekerim

In its local form the line has seven syllables; in standard spelling it reads "Bamyayı ekerim", I sow the okra. Who sows the okra and where, and what is told in the lines that follow, are unknown, because the words of the song have remained no more than this title in Yücel's table. Published sources show neither a score nor a recording.

Story

On who sows the okra, or on what occasion the song was sung, the sources are silent.

Musical Features

In the table of metres Bamiyeyi ekerim stands directly below "Kilo kilo elmalar / Pazarlarda satarlar", written with its two-line title. That song is in 4/4, this one in 2/4; "Kınalıda pabuç giyerler", which follows, is again marked in the 2/4 column. It is one of the 17 two-beat songs Yücel counts. Its makam stays unknown, since Yücel gives the scales only as totals.

Performers and Recordings

Its neighbour "Kilo kilo elmalar" is a song that entered the TRT repertoire and has its own page as Kilo Kilo Elmalar. Bamiyeyi ekerim, however, is not among TRT's Amasya works, and Yücel did not write down the album or source person he took it from; its singer and recording are therefore unknown. A general view of all of Amasya's melodies is found in The Melody of Yeşilırmak.

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