The words "dost elinden gelen", that which comes from the beloved's hand, turn up elsewhere in the folk songs of Amasya too: the second stanza of Eşimden Ayrıldım Yamandır Halim, a deyiş collected in Merzifon, ends "Dost elinden gelen dolu da böyl'olur". The name of this song, by contrast, ties the same words to the word "sâil"; Yücel writes it with a circumflex. No source makes a link between the two works; all they share are these three words. "Dost Elinden Gelen Sâil" is listed in Haluk Yücel's study of Amasya folk songs, published in 2018, as a kırık hava in 2/4.

Catalogue Data

  • Repertoire no.: none; it does not appear in the province-by-province Amasya listing of the TRT repertoire
  • Genre: kırık hava (folk song in a fixed metre)
  • Region: Amasya
  • Source person: not stated
  • Collector, transcriber, date: not stated
  • Makam (mode): not given
  • Metre: 2/4
  • Words and music: anonymous
  • Source publication: Haluk Yücel 2018, Table 5 p. 379, Table 6 p. 382
  • Location in an archive: not shown in the source
  • Source link: Yücel 2018; there is no TRT link

Lyrics

Not a single line beyond the name has been published, and the tune has not been printed in notation. None of the 53 works registered to the Amasya region in the TRT Turkish folk music repertoire bears this name, so TRT's score archive cannot be pointed to as a place holding the text of this song either. Where Yücel took the name from is not said in the article either. In what sense the word "sâil" is used here also cannot be settled without the rest of the words.

Story

For whom it was made, whether an event lies behind it, how it came about: no printed record tells. Like the word "sâil", these questions stay unanswered until the rest of the words are found.

Musical Features

2/4 is the first column of Yücel's metre table, and this song's asterisk stands there. In Yücel's listing the 2/4 songs, with 17 pieces, are the second largest group; the same column holds, besides dance songs such as "Halay çekin düzülsün", a lullaby, the lament "Tek kapıdan çıktım yüzüm peçeli" and the nefes "Kaf u nun hitâbı izhâr olmadan". This variety shows that the metre by itself gives no idea of the setting in which a song was sung. The table says nothing about mode.

Performers and Recordings

In Yücel's genre table this song has directly above it Gelmiş İken Bu Elleri Gezerim from Merzifon, and below it Gökyüzünde Bölük Bölük Turnalar; both are registered in the TRT repertoire with their full details. "Dost Elinden Gelen Sâil", on the other hand, has no known performer, record or broadcast. The region's melodies stand together in the general article.

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