The song's name describes a habit: one goes to the fountain every day. Who goes there, and what happens at the fountain, is unknown, however; Haluk Yücel's 2018 article classifying 89 Amasya folk songs gives only the piece's name, genre and metre. There it is counted as a kırık hava and stated to be written in the limping 5/8 metre; in the listing the number of pieces in this metre is eight.

Catalogue Data

  • Repertoire no.: none; it is not one of the works registered to Amasya in the TRT repertoire
  • Genre: kırık hava (folk song in a fixed metre)
  • Region: Amasya
  • Source person: not in the table
  • Collector and transcriber: not in the table
  • Place and date of collection: not in the table
  • Makam (mode): not given
  • Metre: 5/8
  • Words and music: anonymous
  • Source publication: Haluk Yücel 2018, Table 5 p. 379, Table 6 p. 381
  • Location in an archive: not reported
  • Source link: Yücel's study; there is no TRT link

Lyrics

Neither the lines behind the name nor the tune's notation could be reached in a printed publication. Since this name is not among the songs registered to Amasya in TRT's score archive, the text cannot be expected to come from there. Among the sources Yücel says in another of his writings that he consulted is an Amasya Türküleri CD prepared by the TRT Music Department; but since no list of the CD's contents could be found, it could not be tested whether the piece is on it.

Story

No story of the song's making has been published telling who went to the fountain every day, or why. Nor do the records hold any account collected locally.

Musical Features

Among the songs with which it shares the 5/8 column of the metre table are Hay Edüben Meydan Harman Başında Duran, Eğlen Sana Bir Nasihat Edeyim and Ben de Çıktım Fodullu'nun Üstüne from Merzifon, together with "Samâveri hâlleyleyin", "Turâb ol gönül, turâb ol" and "Yeşilırmak ne akarsın boşuna". This limping metre, in which the five beats divide into two and three, is not counted separately in the text of the article; Yücel highlights only 4/4, 2/4, 9/8 and free rhythm. The song's mode is not written.

Performers and Recordings

In Yücel's genre table this song comes directly after Meryem Suya Gidiyor from Merzifon; both names refer to going to water, to the fountain, but the order in the table does not show any kinship between the two songs. Nor is the name of anyone who sang it known, or a record or published sound recording. The whole of Amasya's folk songs, in the TRT repertoire and in other collections, can be reached from The Melody of Yeşilırmak.

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