Γυφτοπούλα στο χαμάμ - first lines, please!

This is an old real rempetiko song by Giorgos Mpatis. I'm really stuck by what I think are the Turkish words in the first lines and in the last bit. Can anyone help, please?

Γυφτοπούλα στο χαμάμ, κι εγώ πληρώνω μπιρ-ταμάμ,
όσα-όσα τα πλερώνω, να σε βλέπω μπιρ-ταμάμ

για να μπεις να κάνεις μπάνιο, να μην πέσω κι αποθάνω
τσίμπι-ρίμπι γιάλα

Hello, jaust have alook at this thread, there you will find lyrics and translation:

http://www.allthelyrics.com/forum/gr...sto-hamam.html

Enjoy it
Tahira

Thanks, Tahira. Sorry about that. I've always checked before to see if the song was in the list, but this one time I didn't, and it was there. But I still don't know what bir tamam and tsibi-ribi yala mean. Are they just nonsense words, like la-la-la to fill out the line?

No problem for looking up for the lyrics. I do not know either what these other words mena, they must be of turkish or arabic origin.

I knwo that BIR in turkish means TWO; and TAMAM in turkish means "ready / OK / finished"
but it doesnt´make really sense in this context.

Yalla means sonething like "come-on" like "ELA" in greek.

Sorry I cannot help any further :-(

Originally Posted by Tahira

No problem for looking up for the lyrics. I do not know either what these other words mena, they must be of turkish or arabic origin.

I knwo that BIR in turkish means TWO; and TAMAM in turkish means "ready / OK / finished"
but it doesnt´make really sense in this context.

Yalla means sonething like "come-on" like "ELA" in greek.

Sorry I cannot help any further :-(

sorry that I can't be of any help but as I do know some Turkish, I just wanted to point out that "bir" means in Turkish ONE and not two (which is "iki" in Turkish) .