AL COMPAS DE UN TANGO

To the beat of the tango (1942)

LYRICS by: Oscar Rubens

MUSIC by: Alberto Suárez Villanueva

TRANSLATION by: Alberto Paz

Last updated on: 10/9/11

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Sing along with JUAN CARLOS MIRANDA with LUCIO DEMARE Sing along with ALBERTO CASTILLO with RICARDO TANTURI

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CASTELLANO

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Dejate de locuras, muchacho, pensa bien lo que haces. Me han dicho que te han visto borracho llorando una mujer… ¡ Como el dolor te ha cambiado! que ya no sos el de ayer. Volve pa’ la milonga, que un fueye rezonga como llamandote. Al compas de un tango la habras de olvidar con una pebeta que sepa bailar, una piba buena, que al mirar tus ojos, comprenda la pena de tu corazon. Al compas de un tango habras de encontrar a esa mujercita sincera y leal, y veras que un dia, lleno de alegria a la que lloraste ni recordaras. Dejate de locuras, muchacho, tenes que reaccionar El hombre debe ser de quebracho pa’ resistir el mal. Si esa mujer te ha hecho daño perderla ha sido mejor. Volve pa’ la milonga, que un fueye rezonga, pa’ darte mas valor.

Stop the madness, guy, think well what you do. They told me that they’ve seen you drunk crying for a woman… How the pain has changed you! that you’re no longer the one of yore. Come back to the dance hall, that a bellow is grumbling as if it was calling you… To the beat of a tango you’ll forget her with a lass that knows how to dance, with a good girl, who when watching your eyes, understands the pain of your heart. To the beat of a tango you’ll find that sincere and loyal woman, and you’ll see that a day, full of joy the one you cried for, you won’t remember. Stop the madness, guy, you have to react. The man must be strong to resist what is bad. If that woman has harmed you losing her it is for the better. Come back to the dance hall, that a bellow is grumbling, to give you more courage.

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Updated 9/6/10

ADIOS PAMPA MIA

Farewell to my pampa (1945)

LYRICS by: Ivo Pelay

MUSIC by: Francisco Canaro and Mariano Mores

TRANSLATION by: Frank Sasson

Last updated on: 9/30/10

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Sing along with Alberto Castillo with the Osvaldo Requena orchestra

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CASTELLANO

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¡Adiós pampa mía!… Me voy… Me voy a tierras extrañas adiós, caminos que he recorrido, ríos, montes y cañadas, tapera donde he nacido. Si no volvemos a vernos, tierra querida, quiero que sepas que al irme dejo la vida. ¡Adiós!…Al dejarte, pampa mía, ojos y alma se me llenan con el verde de tus pastos y el temblor de las estrellas… Con el canto de tus vientos y el sollozar de vihuelas que me alegraron a veces, y otras me hicieron llorar.¡Adiós pampa mía!… Me voy camino de la esperanza. Adiós, llanuras que he galopado, sendas, lomas y quebradas, lugares donde he soñado. Yo he de volver a tu suelo, cuando presienta que mi alma escapa como paloma hasta el cielo… ¡Adiós!… ¡Me voy, pampa mía!… ¡Adiós!…

Goodbye, my pampa !… I’m leaving… I’m leaving for strange lands Goodbye, roads that I have travelled, rivers, hills and ravines, the shack where I was born. If we don’t see each other again, my loved land, I want you to know That in my departure I leave my life Goodbye !. . .In leaving you, my pampa My eyes and my soul get filled With the green of your grass and the trembling of the stars; with the singing of the winds and the weeping of the guitars That sometimes made me happy And other times made me cry.Goodbye . . . my Pampa I’m leaving on the road of hope Goodbye, plains that I have galloped paths, hills and ravines Places where I have dreamed. I will return to your soil when I have a premonition That my soul is escaping Like a dove, up to the sky. Goodbye ! I’m leaving, my pampa! … Goodbye!…

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