Songs from Turkey

The title of this Turkish Sufi chant translates to mean “May there be unity”.  It comes from a collection of music given to me by a group of Sufi’s belonging to the Halveti-Jerrahi tradition when they were first relocating in the US from Turkey in the early 1980’s. 

Inside the lyrics I provided my words and translation are lacking the special characters that are part of the Turkish alphabet.  Undotted I’s, letters with umlauts and other markings were not able to be included.  I have also modified the Turkish lyrics to replace letters that English speakers would normally pronouce differently…such as letter c, which in Turkish is a j sound. 

Thanks to Nesecan Balkan an economics professor at Hamilton College who provided the translation.

Lyrics:  TEHVID ETSIN DILIMIZ