Songs Composed by Can Yücel’s Poems

Born on August 21, 1926 in Istanbul, Can Yücel is the son of Hasan Âli Yücel, whose name is engraved in the education world of our country with immortal letters. Having studied Latin and Greek, Can Yücel also worked as an announcer in the Turkish section of the BBC channel in London. He married the love of his life, Güler Yücel, and had two children. He passed away on August 12, 1999 after he settled in Old Datça.

Can Yücel, who has written countless works as a writer and translator, has brought important names such as William Shakespeare into Turkish with his own style. However The biggest reason why we remember him today as Can Baba, His poems are written with unprecedented mastery. Some of these poems were read in his own voice, and some of them were composed and turned into songs. Let’s listen to the songs composed of Can Yücel’s poems.

Songs composed of Can Yücel’s poems:

• Wall of Love – Ahmet Kaya
• Lament for Sardinia – New Song
• Gum Tree – Hüsnü Arkan
• Yesilmisik – New Turkic
• I Love You Child – Edip Akbayram
• Something Else – Yeni Türkü
• On the Meeting – Hüsnü Arkan
• Leaf Fall – New Song
• I Loved My Father Most in My Life – Edip Akbayram
• Green Song – New Song

The more disgraced we are, the better: The Wall of Love – Ahmet Kaya

Was it you or was it my loneliness

We used to open our rusty eyes in the blind darkness

A hangover on our tongue

halls markets art lovers

My problem was to bring you out in public

An ammonia flower on your collar

My loneliness is my pissing countess

The more miserable we are, the better.

We frequented Kumkapi taverns

In front of us, Altınbaş, Altın Zincir, bean stew

Behind us, officials, teams, Hızır Pashas

In the morning, they would find the scum in the open.

It was so hot that the hands of the garbage collectors

I would caress you with the hands of the garbage men

My loneliness is my broom hair

The worse we smell, the better.

I saw a red plane in the sky

Lots of steel, lots of stars, lots of people

One night we crossed the Wall of Love

The place I dusted is so clear

There is only you at my bedside and the universe

I don’t count the ones I’ve died and resurrected

My loneliness is my plural songs

The more lies we live, the better

The flower is ironed: Lament for Sardinia – Yeni Türkü

at five o’clock in the afternoon

Chief Warden Rıza

Blacks came to the ward

at five o’clock in the afternoon

We stopped to watch the fanfare

Arrest the geranium

They threw it to the bottom

at five o’clock in the afternoon

abetted loss

Criminality and marijuana

It sure has a red

at five o’clock in the afternoon

Dirlik and regularity are saved,

Manager sits on the chair

The flower is struck by the iron

at five o’clock in the afternoon

The eyes of souls are in tears,

His mind is on death row comrade,

Green fights with death

at five o’clock in the afternoon

On a windy shore, in joy: Gum Tree – Hüsnü Arkan

It was a gum tree, plain;

One day he came to the green beach,

Then this time has displaced contented;

He watches the clouds, the sky, the sea.

Sunny leaves trembled with the wind;

Life lasted so content with his world,

Some nights could not sleep from the light,

Engine sounds could be heard in the distance.

God did not hear your name in your life;

Just because it’s happening without believing,

On a windy shore, in joy,

Why think while living?

He did not even mention those who passed by;

What does the happiest have to do with the future?

Like a wanderer, day by day,

It was a gum tree, it lived simply.

It was like fish, silent and dark: Yeşilmişik – Yeni Türkü / From the poem Suda

A pair of leaves, soft on the branch,

I have held your hands;

We fell slowly into a calm stream

We were in it, we were green, we were reeds.

Like fish, silent and dark,

Your floating hair, your floating breath;

We are so silent, a calm stream

We were in it, we were green, we were reeds.

He was the fastest of all of us: Love You Child – From the poem by Edip Akbayram / Mare Nostrum

The longest run is of course the Revolution in Turkey,

She ran her most beautiful hundred yards

Jumping out of the barrel of the most resilient luver…

He was the fastest of us all,

She breastfed the rope first…

If I pity you, let me be my mother,

But get love to you child, get love!

And a new life: Something Different – Yeni Türkü

What I want is something different

neither like a tree nor a cloud

It’s not like this is the hometown I’m going to

sea ​​apart,

air is different..

fall from another branch of travel

longer than you live

a sweet ride to the ground

to the height of the tree

in the wind at the height of the branch

and a new life

by the green of the grass you arrived

where i saw

where is he waiting

other color

taste different..

The water is torn from the middle like calico sheets: See you soon – Hüsnü Arkan

Let’s say you got caught in the rain one day

It’s raining like a divorce from the glass, blessed

On the other hand, the sun enjoys itself

After all, summer rain

Sparkling drops falling

Your skirts are an end to end run

You narrowly threw yourself on the porch of the opposite house.

Here you will find me at the door of that house

Let’s pull for a morning time

You said you’d go to the sea early

As you stroke

The water rips away like calico sheets

Aegean sea, this is the master sea

Doesn’t sound

Then you say let’s dive to the bottom

Maybe he was born into

Here are the fish running around with freckles

Are there lapinas and silvers?

Eylim eylim swaying algae

Among them you will find me

Let’s say a guy who is a poet to the core has appeared.

cigarette lighter eyes

Square either Taksim or Beyazit Square

Everyone’s there, you’re there too

The guy’s talking about us, the children of this country

Let’s walk, friends say, let’s walk

Towards freedom and happiness

He says love at the beginning of everything

Your eyes are the green of leaves after the rain

You’re turning your head

You have me near you

Those wine thugs: Leaf Drop – Yeni Türkü

The leaves that turn brown before they turn yellow

They gave glory a whole autumn

When the season turns and starts to green again, the wind

In your nakedness that horse will run again

those kids

those leaves

Those wine thugs

Without them, who else do I have?

While running, then that giant in flight: I Loved My Father Most in My Life – Edip Akbayram

I loved my father most in life

A child that runs off the ground like gorse

With his crooked legs -he’s fallen, he’s going to fall

As a giant runs after

I loved that flirtatious father so much

He didn’t know the neighborhood we live in

Come or go – always, always in a hurry

The most beautiful eyed education inspector of the age

I used to look through the atlas, where did it go?

That’s how I memorized my hometown

I would fly with joy, did I get sick,

If the fire passes forty, they call to Istanbul

Of course he wants to say goodbye, right with his son!

I made this game of love when I was typhoid,

I said ohh, I buried my nose in your chest,

Until your last inspection

As you run, then that flying giant,

For other kinds of love, for broad loves

Opened my breath, my mind, my dear

In life, I loved my father the most.

Everything speaks in its own language: Yeşil Şarkı – Yeni Türkü / From the poem Yeşil Poem

The more you look, the more the stars multiply in the night

Not counting with your fingers;

Some are heard, some are not.

The more you listen, the more it multiplies in the night,

Voices come

Either fast or slow.

Everything speaks in its own language;

Even if the darkness covers it

Continues in the night color color

On the branch of the tree, in the wind;

Everything speaks in its own color.

He would close his eyes and wait;

He stretches out his leaf-like hands and palms,

He would wait until he heard

On the branch of the tree, in the wind;

Did he hear green sleep

In your dream…

One of the most important names of Turkish poetry By sharing some of the songs composed by Can Yücel’s poems, We wanted to commemorate the great master for a little bit. You can share your favorite Can Yücel poem in the comments.