Odayın Yapısına (By the Room's Doorway)
Story
The song is a short, lively kırık hava (metered folk tune) that addresses a beauty through everyday domestic images — a room, a doorway. The note “Mencoğlu” attached to its source record points to a family or lineage name by which the song is known in the region.
About
This song, native to the Çorum region, is registered as TRT Repertoire No. 31. Its source singer is Cafer Kaya; the song was collected and set to notation by Nida Tüfekçi on 16 March 1971.
Lyrics
The song’s known quatrain:
Odayın yapısına Çık otur kapısına Canımız gurban olsun Güzelin hepisine