Aşık Veysel - Güzelliğin On Para Etmez - Your beauty is not worth a penny.

Güzelliğin on par´etmez

Your beauty is not worth a penny.
Bu bendeki aşk olmasa

If I don’t have the love in me.
Eğlenecek yer bulaman

I couldn’t find a place to have fun.
Gönlümdeki köşk olmasa

If I don’t have the mansion in my heart.

Tabirin sığmaz kaleme

Your locution doesn’t fit into pen.
Derdin dermandır yareme

Your sorrow is a remedy to my wound.
İsmin yazılmaz aleme

Your name cannot be read in the universe.
Aşıklarda meşk olmasa

If lovers do not have model.

Kim okurdu kim yazardı

Who would read who would write
Bu düğümü kim çözerdi

Who would untie the knot
Koyun kurt ile gezerdi

Sheep would walk with wolf.

Fikir başka başk´olmasa

Unless thoughts vary.

Güzel yüzün görülmezdi

Your beautiful face could not be seen.
Bu aşk bende dirilmezdi

This love wouldn’t be resuscitated.
Güle kıymet verilmezdi

Rose wouldn’t be valuable.

Aşıkla maşuk olmasa

If there was no lover and sweet.

Senden aldım bu feryadı

I took this clamor from you.
Bu imiş dünyanın tadı

İt was the taste of the world.
Anılmazdı Veysel adı

The name Veysel wouldn’t be commemorated.
O sana aşık olmasa

If she was not in love with you.

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