Bir Taş Attım Alıca (I Threw a Stone at the Hawthorn)
Story
The song opens with an everyday village scene — “I threw a stone at the hawthorn” — and moves from there into admiration for a kohl-eyed beloved. Through the images of nature and rural life that folk poetry so often draws on (a stone, a bird, an apple), it expresses love with a light, playful touch. With its lively melody and easily remembered refrain, it is among the cheerful songs sung with pleasure in the region.
About
It is a folk song of the Çorum region, associated in the sources with the Çorum / Alaca area. It is a “kırık hava” (metered folk tune). Variants of the song are also recorded under names such as “Tımbıllı” and “Şu derenin uzunu,” showing that it circulated in the region in several forms passed from mouth to mouth.
Lyrics
A representative excerpt of the song’s traditional (anonymous) words, given in English summary:
I threw a stone at the hawthorn,
I struck a bird, half wild;
I loved a sweetheart such
that her eyes were lined with kohl.
(Line variants differ from source to source.)