Divâne âşık gibi

Divâne âşık gibi da dolanırım yollarda

Kız senin sebebune kaldum İstanbullar'da

Baban beni babamdan da bir kerecik istersin

Allah'ın emri ile gelinim olsun desin

Sar belune belune da Karadeniz kuşağı

E kız sende dermisun alsam habu uşağı

Yüksek dağın kuşuyum da selviye konacağım

İste beni babamdan vermezse kaçacağım

Al şalım yeşil şalım da dünyayı dolaşalım

Al şalım yeşil şalım da dağları dolaşalım

Sen yağmur ol ben bulut Maçka'da buluşalım

I am like a madman in love, wandering in the streets

Oh girl, for you I stayed in Istanbul

If only your father asked me from my father once

'By God's will, let her be my daughter-in-law'

Wrapping Karadeniz belt around your waist

Girl, would you say 'If only I had taken this boy?'

I will be a bird of high mountains perching on a cypress tree

Ask me from my father, if he disagrees, I will run away with you

My red shawl, my green shawl, let's wander around the world
My red shawl, my green shawl, let's wander on the mountains

You be the rain, I be the cloud, let's meet together in Maçka

*Very famous folk song from the Black Sea (Karadeniz in Turkish) area of Turkey. It is a dialogue between a boy and a girl in love who want to marry each other. The Karadeniz belt is a traditional item of clothing in that area, and Maçka is a town in the Black Sea region. The region is rainy throughout the year, which helps understand the metaphor of rain and cloud.

Here are two interpretations, the traditional by Erkan Oğur and İsmail Demircioğlu, and the modern by Doğa İçin Çal.