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Araca la cana · Francisco Canaro · 1933

Music by Enrique Delfino. 3 recordings in our catalogue, 1933–1979.

Araca la cana · Francisco Canaro · 1933 was sung by Ernesto Famá.† Araca la cana · Francisco Canaro · 1933 is a tango.† Araca la cana · Francisco Canaro · 1933 lasts 02:40.†

Credit

Music
Enrique Delfino

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Every recording

3 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 3 more we know of

  1. Aníbal TroiloNot in our catalogueInstrumental1932
  2. Osvaldo FresedoEarliest we holdMost dancedRoberto Ray · RCA Victor · Jun 6
    53 dances
    1933
  3. Francisco CanaroErnesto Famá · Odeon · Jun 16
    Not danced on film yet
    1933
  4. Ángel Domingo Riverol, Domingo Julio Vivas, Guillermo Barbieri, Horacio PettorossiNot in our catalogueCarlos Gardel · Jun 121933
  5. Armando PontierRoberto Goyeneche · Jun 7
    Not danced on film yet
    1979
  6. Víctor BuchinoNot in our catalogueEdmundo Rivero

Lyrics

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¡Araca la cana! Ya estoy engriyao... Un par de ojos negros me han engayolao. Ojazos profundos, oscuros y bravos, tajantes y fieros hieren al mirar, con brillos de acero que van a matar. De miedo al mirarlos el cuor me ha fayao. ¡Araca la cana! ya estoy engriyao. Yo que anduve entreverao en mil y una ocasión y en todas he guapeao yo que al me he jugao entero el corazón sin asco ni cuidao. Como un vengo a ensartarme en esta daga que va a matarme si es pa' creer que es cosa'e Dios que al guapo más capaz le faye el corazón.

English · machine translation

Get the gray hair! I'm already drunk... A pair of black eyes have made me gummed up. Deep, dark and fierce eyes, sharp and fierce, wounding to look into, with glints of steel that will kill. From fear when I look at them, my heart has fainted. Araca la cana! I'm already engriyao. I who have been in the middle of things on a thousand and one occasions and in all of them I've been a guapeao I who have gambled my whole heart my whole heart without disgust or care. Like a fool I've come to skewer myself in this dagger that's going to kill me if it's to believe that it's God's doing that the most capable handsome to faye his heart.

Data: recordings, facts and sources

Recordings by year

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

19331979

1933: 2, 1979: 1

In other catalogues2

tango.info · 02480002112525-1-19

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tango.info · 02480002040729-1-18

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Singers1

Sung by Ernesto Famá

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Is a1

Is a tango

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Duration1

Duration 02:40

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Audio feature10

Audio feature 126.0

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Audio feature 0.942

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Audio feature 0.586

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Audio feature -25.1

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Audio feature 0.349

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Audio feature 0.321

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Audio feature 0.26

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Audio feature 0.009

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Audio feature 0.73

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  1. Araca la canaOsvaldo Fresedo · Roberto Ray1933

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