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El abrojito · Alberto Morán · 1958

Music by Luis Bernstein, lyrics by Jesús Fernández Blanco. 8 recordings in our catalogue, 1925–2009.
1925: 1 · danced 0 times1945: 1 · danced 45 times1958: 1 · danced 0 times1964: 1 · danced 1 times1987: 1 · danced 1 times1994: 1 · danced 0 times1998: 1 · danced 0 times2009: 1 · danced 0 times
1925’40’50’60’70’80’90’002009
records madedanced on film, by the record’s year· our catalogue

1925: 1, 0; 1945: 1, 45; 1958: 1, 0; 1964: 1, 1; 1987: 1, 1; 1994: 1, 0; 1998: 1, 0; 2009: 1, 0

  1. Color Tango (Roberto Alvarez) recorded it in 1994 and 2009.

    How we know

    Takes in our catalogue by the same orchestra in different years; the canon’s first orchestra is named.

El abrojito · Alberto Morán · 1958 was sung by Alberto Morán.†

Credit

Music
Luis Bernstein
Lyrics
Jesús Fernández Blanco

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Every recording

8 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 13 more we know of

1920’30’40’50’60’70’80’90’00

Choose A and B on two recordings to hear them one after the other.

  1. Osvaldo PuglieseMost dancedAlberto Morán · Odeon · Jul 24
    45 dances
    1945
  2. Julio De CaroEarliest we hold
    Not danced on film yet
    1925
  3. Quinteto Real (Horacio Salgán)Columbia
    1 dance
    1964
  4. Nuevo Quinteto Real (Horacio Salgán)Philips
    1 dance
    1987
  5. Color Tango (Roberto Alvarez)
    Not danced on film yet
    1994
  6. Color Tango (Roberto Alvarez)Roberto Decarre
    Not danced on film yet
    2009
  7. Orquesta El Arranque
    Not danced on film yet
    1998
  8. Alberto MoránJul 24
    Not danced on film yet
    1958
  9. Cuarteto Troilo-GrelaNot in our catalogue1955
  10. Armando CupoNot in our catalogueAlberto Morán · Jul 241958
  11. Ciriaco Ortiz, Ubaldo Aquiles De LioNot in our catalogue1965
  12. Fulvio SalamancaNot in our catalogueJulio Rodolfo1968
  13. Fulvio SalamancaNot in our catalogueJulio Rodolfo1985
  14. Nuevo Quinteto RealNot in our catalogueJan 191996
  15. Color TangoNot in our catalogue2003
  16. Quinteto ÁngelNot in our catalogueJul 112012
  17. Lágrima RíosNot in our catalogue
  18. Ernesto Baffa, Osvaldo BerlingieriNot in our catalogue
  19. Fulvio SalamancaNot in our catalogueJulio Rodolfo
  20. Horacio MalvicinoNot in our catalogue

Lyrics

Español

Llevo, como abrojito, prendido dentro del corazón una pena porque te fuiste, ingrata, del nido y mi vida tan serena condenaste así al dolor. Nunca podré arrancar de mi pecho, ¡nunca! el abrojito punzante. Y ando, por todo el mal que me has hecho con el alma agonizante, sin fe, sin nido, ni amor... No sé por qué te alejaste de mí si yo te adoré con creciente fervor. No sé por qué me engañabas así, sin demostrar tu desamor... Con tu querer, yo era un hombre feliz y nunca pensé que tu ardiente pasión era el puñal que me habría de abrir esta herida de mi corazón. Quiero que en tu vivir errabundo, sepas que solo y entristecido marcho por los senderos del mundo, con recuerdos que han prendido como abrojos de cardal... Pido que alguna vez tropecemos para saber si al fin has hallado todo lo que inconsciente has soñado. ¡Y quizá después podamos volver los dos a empezar!

English · machine translation

I carry, like a little thorn, a pain inside my heart a sorrow because you left, ungrateful, from the nest and my life so serene you thus condemned to pain. I will never be able to tear from my breast, never! the piercing thorn. And I walk, for all the evil you have done me with an agonizing soul, without faith, without nest, without love... I don't know why you turned away from me if I adored you with growing fervor. I don't know why you deceived me like that, without showing your lack of love... With your love, I was a happy man and I never thought that your burning passion was the dagger that was to open up this wound in my heart. I want that in your wandering life I want you to know that alone and saddened I walk the paths of the world with memories that have taken hold like thistles of a thistle... I ask that sometime we stumble to know if at last you have found all that you have unconsciously dreamed of. And maybe afterwards we can both of us can start again!

What we don't know yet4 of 5 known

The record label.

Data: recordings, facts and sources

Singers1

Sung by Alberto MoránJul 24, 1958

Single source

Vocal1

Vocal sung

Single source

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  1. El abrojitoJulio De Caro1925

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