Merhaba, dostlar! May I ask a favor? I have discovered Yavuz Bingöl, partly through the guidance of gokuyum, although he does not know it. Now I am trying to translate a song, but I am having trouble and I know it. Could you look at what I have done and help me. İmdat!

Turnalar -- Cranes

Ben derdimi hangi dağa -- I am not able to say my sorrow. To which mountain?
Yüreğimi hangi suya diyemiyorum -- I am not able to say my emotions. To which water?
Sen benimsin bahar gözlüm -- You are mine, my youthful-eyed one.

This translation looks perfect. Congratulations.This is a nice song but some sentences sounds so weird to my ears. Not your sentences I mean the original ones.

Çok teşekkür ederim, gokuyum! Here is the song that made me start listening to Yavuz Bingöl. I think you know this song.

"Urfa Türküsü"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU8DvYbQXjs

Yeah it is one of my favourite folk songs. I guess I translated this song in the past. I am happy that you love it.

Actually, I did not see a translation, if you did one. But here is my try. There is at least one line in these lyrics that is different from what Yavuz Bingöl sings. But this is all that I could find online to work with.

Here is my translation:

http://www.turkishclass.com/forumTitle_54890_3

And here is my explanation about what aman means. It is a quote from one of my previous posts:

http://www.turkishclass.com/forumTitle_58437

As you write "aman" means mercy. But most of the time we dont use it like a word but we use it as a vocal expression like the other vocal expressions such as ah, oh, woe. And it means many things according to where you use it. I think aman aman is an expression of sadness or desperation there. Maybe saying mercy mercy is the way of it. I am not very sure about it. I use it in another way in my life:

Ex: Amaaaan. Boşver.

Here I dont know how to translate it. But it is an expression of frustration or boredom. It is not something about mercy.

Well, after looking at your translation, I can see that I got things wrong, but I didn´t do as badly as I had feared. You can see by my translation of "aman" that I am a prisoner of my dictionary. And explain this to me: Last night I looked at "yavrusun" and thought it meant "your young one," but after I posted, I got to thinking that "sun" wouldn´t be a possessive. That maybe it meant "you are a young one." But I see you translated it as "she lost her baby." What is "yavrusun"? I am confused.

Back to "aman." Here is what the Turkish Class dictionary says:

You can see that I was somewhat at sea deciding what to use. So, the way you use it is perhaps (1) or (2)? Or even a little different. And now for "boşver":

Is this what you mean when you use it?

And all this brings me back to music. Do you know the Sıla song "Boşver"? I think she means "take it easy" in her song. It does make a very good reggae song, maaan.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25P0qRshEBo

Actually it is "yavrusunu". But this folk song is written (actually it is sang. I think they were not writing, they were just singing them) with syllable meter like all the other folk songs. Each line has 13 syllabels in this song. If the singer of the song sang it saying "yavrusunu" that line would be 14 syllables. That is why he shortened the word. It is a very common thing to see this kind of shortenings in folk songs because of the syllable meter.

Aman is the expression of sadness in this song. But in my sentence it is expression of a frustration or boredom. It is a vocal expression taking different meanings according to how you use it. But you can use it as a word too.

Bana hiç aman vermedi. He showed me no mercy.