Bu Adam benim babam [English translation]

This man is my father

With his eight cornered cap

On his shoulder a sack, hey!

No money in his pocket

Bafra is his cigarette (a cheaper turkish brand of cigarettes)

In his heart pain is buried

He has raised 6 children

with a laborers salary (being unskilled the salary is very low)

This man is my father, hey!

Do not cry my father

Do not cry my helpless father

These dark days will pass, hey!

The one who closes a door

will again open that door

Do not cry my father, hey!

Do not cry my innocent father

Do not cry my helpless father

These dark days will pass, hey!

The one who closes a door

will again open that door

God is great my father, hey!

This man is my father

His troubles are greater than the mountains

Helpless, with bent back, hey!

A man who never knew happiness

A man who never knew comfort

Never been comforted

Never begged of one piece of bread

This man is my father, hey!

My father was a righteous man

His heart was a brave lions heart

His heart was soft as a child's

All my life I wanted to be like him

He was unselfish

Perhaps he didn't even had a plant of his own

But he himself was a great sycamore tree living with his pride

He was the arms around me, the wings beneath me

He was the mountain behind me

I am my fathers son

From top to bottom I am Anatolia***