Derya Yıldırım & Graham Mushnik - Tren Gelir

"Tren Gelir" is the first single from the album "Hey Dostum, Çak! - Music for children and people" by Derya Yıldırım & Graham Mushnik which is out on 10th February 2023 on Buback Tonträger.

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"Tren Gelir" translates to "The train is coming". It’s not a typical children’s song but it fits on a children’s album. It’s one of the first songs that kids learn in bağlama lessons. The version by Derya and Graham is joyful, easy to dance to, and has a nice creaky synth bass as well as a flute intoning the whistle of the train.

Many of the songs on Hey Dostum, Çak! are songs that Derya Yıldırım, a Hamburg-native, knows from her childhood: they’re lullabies she was sung to sleep with, folk songs her father played on the bağlama, ones she sang in Turkish lessons, others that could be heard on her grandparents’ cassettes, or those she learned from her bağlama teacher, who provided lessons to her and other Turkish-speaking kids at the Stadtteilladen (District Center) in Hamburg-Veddel. “Many of my younger relatives no longer know it, they can’t really speak Turkish. I don’t want to bring the kids back to the past, but with the album I want to show them: ‘check this out, look what else is there,’” Derya says. “I would have loved an album like this.”

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LYRICS:

Turkish version:
Tren gelir hoş gelir (ley ley limi limi ley)
Odaları boş gelir (mini mini güzel gel bize)

Duydum yar bize gelmiş (ley ley limi limi ley)
Sefa gelir hoş gelir (mini mini güzel gel bize)

Beydağı'na kar yağar (ley ley limi limi ley)
Kar altında güller var (mini mini güzel gel bize)

English version:
The train comes, a welcomed sight (ley ley limi limi ley)
Empty carriages come with it (my dear, dear beauty, come to us)

I heard that my beloved has come to us (ley ley limi limi ley)
Welcome, welcome, welcome (my dear, dear beauty, come to us)

In Beydağ snow falls (ley ley limi limi ley)
Covering the roses that lie beneath (my dear, dear beauty, come to us)

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CREDITS:

Video: Rémi Richarme.

Produced, arranged and interpreted: Derya Yıldırım, Graham Mushnik
Recorded: Mense Reents, René Huthwelker, Art Blakey Studios
Mixed: Antonin Voyant, Catapulte Mountain
Mastered: Gavin Weiss

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