a simple sentimental popular song about a sad story, usually involving love, death, nostalgia or illness, of a genre originating around 1900
çekim: çoğul smartlappen
köken: Borrowed from German Schmachtlappen, but by folk etymology reanalysed as smart (“grief”) + lap (“rag, sheet”). The widespread supposition that the word originally referred to canvases (roldoeken) depicting sad scenes that were used by itinerant street singers or street musicians is incorrect.