Patotero sentimental · Carlos Gardel · 1922

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Patotero, rey del bailongo, patotero, sentimental. Escondés bajo tu risa muchas ganas de llorar. Ya los años se van pasando y en mi pecho no entró un querer. En mi vida tuve minas, muchas minas pero nunca una mujer... Cuando tomo dos copas de más, en mi pecho comienza a surgir el recuerdo de aquella fiel mujer que me quiso de verdad, y yo, ingrato, abandoné. De su amor me burlé sin mirar que pudiera sentirlo después, sin saber que los años al correr iban, crueles, a amargar a este rey del cabaret. ¡Pobrecita! ¡Cómo lloraba cuando ciego la eché a rodar...! La patota me miraba y... ¡no es de hombre el aflojar! Patotero rey del bailongo, de ella siempre te acordarás. Hoy ríes... pero tu risa ¡sólo es ganas de llorar!

English · machine translation

Patotero, king of the bailongo, patotero, sentimental. You hide under your laughter a lot of desire to cry. Already the years are passing by and in my chest no love has entered my chest. In my life I have had girls, many girls but never a woman... When I have two drinks too many the memory of that faithful woman the memory of that faithful woman who really loved me, and I, ungrateful, abandoned. Of her love I mocked without looking that I could feel it later, not knowing that the years, as they went by were cruelly going to embitter this king of the cabaret. Poor thing! How he cried when, blind I rolled her over...! The duck was looking at me y... it's not like a man to let up! Patotero king of the bailongo, of her you will always you will always remember. Today you laugh... but your laughter is only a desire to cry!