Spainish
Name:
Muchacho
Translater:
Unknown
Lyric
Muchacho
que por que la suerte quiso.
vivis en un primer piso
de un palacete central,
que para vicios y placeres,
para farras y mujeres
dispones de un capital.
Muchacho
que no sabes el encanto
de haber derramado llanto
sobre un pecho de mujer,
que no sabes que es secarse
en una timba y armarse
para volverse a meter.
Que decis que un tango rante
no te hace perder la calma,
y que no te llora el alma
cuando gime un bandoneon;
que si tenes sentimiento
lo tenes adormecido
pues todo lo has conseguido
pagando como un chabon.
Decime
si en tu vida pelandruna
bajo la luz de la luna
o si no bajo un farol,
vos te has sentido poeta
y le has dicho a una pebeta
que era más linda que el sol.
Decime
si conoces la armonia,
la dulce policromia
de las tardes de arrabal,
cuando van las fabriqueras
tentadoras y diqueras
bajo el sonoro percal.
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English
Name:
Boy (1924)
Translater:
Alberto Paz
Lyric
Boy
that because the luck wanted
you live on the first floor
of a central highrise,
that for vices and pleasures,
for parties and women
you have a trust fund.
Boy
that you do not know the enchantment
of having spilled tears
on a woman chest,
that you do not know how it is to go dry
in a gambling hall and to force yourself
to go back in.
That you say that a down and dirty tango
does not make you lose the calm,
and that your soull does not cry
when a bandoneon moans;
that if you have any feeling
you have it sedated
because all you have obtained
has been paying like a sucker.
Tell me
if in your stupid life
under the light of the moon
or if not under a street lamp
you have felt like a poet
and you have said to a babe
that she was prettier than the sun.
Tell me
if you know the harmony
the sweet multicolors
of the afternoons of suburb,
when the factory workers,
tempting and attractive go
under the sonorous percal.