POR QUE CANTO ASI |
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Why I sing this way (1942) | |
LYRICS by: Celedonio Flores |
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MUSIC by: Gerardo Matos Rodriguez |
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TRANSLATION by: Alberto Paz |
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Last updated on: 2/10/12 | |
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Sing along with JULIO SOSA with LEOPOLDO FEDERICO |
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From the Album de Oro de Julio Sosa, this is poem written by Celedonio Flores and recited by Julio Sosa over the background of the classic tango La cumparsita by Gerardo Matos Rodriguez. |
CASTELLANO
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ENGLISH
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Pido permiso señores
que este tango… este tango habla por mi y mi voz entre sus sones dira dira porqué canto asi…
Porque cuando pibe me acunaba en tangos
la canción materna que llamaba al sueño, y escuché el rezongo de los bandoneones bajo el emparrado de mi patio pobre. Porque vi el desfile de las inclemencias con mis pobres ojos de llorar abiertos, y en aquella pieza de mis buenos viejos tuvo la pobreza su mejor canción… Y yo me hice en tangos, Porque quise mucho, porque me engañaron, |
I beg your pardon, gentlemen,
This tango … this tango speaks for me And my voice in its sounds will tell… It will tell why I sing this way.
Because as a kid,
Because as a kid, the maternal song cradled me in tango To put me to sleep. And I heard the grumbling of the bandoneon Under the arbor of the old patio; Because I saw the parade of the elements With my poor eyes watery and open And in the sad room of my good parents Poverty sang its winter song. And I was made in tangos, Because I loved a lot, and because I was cheated |
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