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Te llaman Malevo · Orquesta Típica Fernández Fierro · 2001

Orquesta Típica Fernández FierroEl Chino Labordetango
Music by Aníbal Troilo, lyrics by Homero Expósito. 3 recordings in our catalogue, 1957–2001.

Pinned at 2001 · Electronic and festival era 2000– · Orquesta Típica Fernández Fierro recordings indexed 2001–2017

The song

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2 orchestras recorded it

17 Dances filmed to it

Who wrote it

Music
Aníbal Troilo
Words
Homero Expósito
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Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Lyrics

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Nació en un barrio con malvón y luna por donde el hambre suele hacer gambetas y desde fue poniendo el hombro y anchó a trabajo su sonrisa buena. La sal del tiempo le oxidó la cara cuando una mina lo dejó en chancleta y entonces solo, para siempre solo, largó el y se metió en la huella. Malevo, te olvidaste en los boliches los anhelos de tu vieja. Malevo, se agrandaron tus hazañas con las copas de ginebra. Por ella, tan sólo por ella, dejaste una huella de amargo rencor. Malevo, ¡qué triste! jugaste y perdiste tan sólo por ella que nunca volvió. Tambor de tacos redoblando calles para que se entren las muchachas buenas y allí el silencio que mastica el pucho dejando siempre la mirada a cuenta. Dicen que dicen que una noche zurda con el cuchillo deshojó la espera y entonces solo, como flor de orilla, largó el cansancio y se mató por ella.

English · machine translation

He was born in a neighborhood with mallow and moon where hunger usually wanders and since he was a child he put his shoulder to work and widened his good smile to work. The salt of time oxidized his face when a girl left him in his flip-flops and then alone, forever alone, he left his job and got into the track. Malevo, you forgot in the nightclubs the yearnings of your old lady. Malevo, your exploits were enlarged with the glasses of gin. For her, just for her, you left a trace of bitter resentment. Malevo, how sad! you played and lost just for her who never came back. Drum of tacos redoubling the streets for the good girls to enter and there the silence that chews on the cigarette always leaving the look on account. They say that they say that one night left-handed with the knife he stripped the wait and then alone, like a flower on the shore, he released his tiredness and killed himself for her.

Every version

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The catalogue holds 3 recordings of this song by 2 orchestras, 1957 to 2001.
1950’60’70’80’90’00
Recordings of Te llaman Malevo · Orquesta Típica Fernández Fierro · 2001 by year, taller the more they are danced · 3 of 3 recordings carry a year · read Nov 1, 2026

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

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  1. Orquesta Típica Fernández FierroTe llaman MalevoOrquesta Típica Fernández FierroEl Chino Labordetango
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    2001
  2. Alberto Di PauloNot in our catalogueNelly Omar1983
  3. Jorge SobralNot in our catalogue
  4. -unspecified orchestra-Not in our catalogue

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Orquesta Típica Fernández Fierro

Te llaman MalevoOrquesta Típica Fernández FierroEl Chino Labordetango

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