ABOUT THE SONG Gesi Bağları (Gardens of Gesi) is a Turkish folk song from the Kayseri province in Anatolia. Composer and lyricist of the song are unknown.
Gesi Bağları was edited in the 1940-s by Muzaffer Sarisozen who undertook a number of expeditions into the rural areas of Turkey to collect thousands of folk songs.
Since then, Gesi Bağları has become very popular in Turkey and other turkis coutries. There are few Turkish singers who haven’t included the song in their repertoires.
Gesi Bağları is a song about separation and loss. Different back stories have been circulated to make sense of the ambiguous lyrics. Let’s consider one of them:
This song is about a young girl - Leyla, she married Mustafa from a distant village.
But after having married her husband, she is treated badly by him and his wholde family.
Therefore she misses her mom so much. One day she heard that her mother is dead, Leyla sings this song
tributing to her while walking at «Gesi Baglari» which is a beautiful place in city of Kayseri Turkey
In 2013, Dimash Qudaibergen represented Qazaqstan at the TürkçeVizyon festival in Denizli. At the gala night on September 14th in Pamukkale, he sang «Gesi Bağları».