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Infamia · Eduardo Del Piano · 1953

Music by Enrique Santos Discepolo, lyrics by Enrique Santos Discepolo. 4 recordings in our catalogue, 1941–1953.
1941: 2 · danced 85 times1953: 2 · danced 1 times
1941’501953
records madedanced on film, by the record’s year· our catalogue

1941: 2, 85; 1953: 2, 1

Credit

Music
Enrique Santos Discepolo
Lyrics
Enrique Santos Discepolo

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Every recording

4 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 7 more we know of

1940’50

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

  1. Juan D'ArienzoMost dancedHéctor Mauré · RCA Victor · Dec 15
    85 dances
    1941
  2. Francisco CanaroEarliest we holdEduardo Adrian · Odeon · Oct 29
    Not danced on film yet
    1941
  3. Francisco RotundoFloreal Ruiz · Pampa · Apr 6
    1 dance
    1953
  4. Eduardo Del PianoMario Bustos
    Not danced on film yet
    1953
  5. Edmundo RiveroNot in our catalogue1954
  6. -unspecified guitars-Not in our catalogueHéctor Mauré1954
  7. TaniaNot in our catalogue
  8. Edmundo RiveroNot in our catalogue
  9. Héctor StamponiNot in our catalogueEdmundo Rivero
  10. -unspecified guitars-Not in our catalogueEdmundo Rivero
  11. -unspecified orchestra-Not in our catalogueEdmundo Rivero

Lyrics

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La gente, que es brutal cuando se ensaña, la gente, que es feroz cuando hace un mal, buscó para hacer títeres en su guiñol, la imagen de tu amor y mi esperanza... A mí, ¿qué me importaba tu pasado...? si tu alma entraba pura a un porvenir. Dichoso abrí los brazos a tu afán y con mi amor salimos, de payasos, a vivir. Fue inútil gritar que querías ser buena. Fue estúpido aullar la promesa de tu redención... La gente es brutal y odia siempre al que sueña, lo burla y con risas despeña su intento mejor... Tu historia y mi honor desnudaos en la feria, bailaron su danza de horror, sin compasión... Tu angustia comprendió que era imposible, luchar contra la gente es infernal. Por eso me dejaste sin decirlo, ¡amor!... y fuiste a hundirte al fin en tu destino. Tu vida desde entonces fue un suicidio, vorágine de horrores y de alcohol. Anoche te mataste ya del todo y mi emoción te llora en tu descanso... ¡Corazón! Quisiera que Dios amparara tu sueño. muñeca de amor que no pudo alcanzar su ilusión. Yo quise hacer más pero sólo fue un ansia. Que tu alma perdone a mi vida su esfuerzo mejor. De blanco al morir, llegará tu esperanza, vestida de novia ante Dios... como soñó.

English · machine translation

People, who are brutal when they rage, people, who are fierce when they do wrong, sought to make puppets in their puppet show, the image of your love and my hope... What did I care about your past...? if your soul entered purely into a future. Fortunate I opened my arms to your eagerness and with my love we went out, as clowns, to live. It was useless to shout that you wanted to be good. It was stupid to howl the promise of your redemption... People are brutal and always hate the one who dreams, they mock him and with laughter their best attempt... Your story and my honor naked at the fair, danced their dance of horror, without compassion... Your anguish understood that it was impossible, to fight against people is hellish. That's why you left me without saying it, love!.... and you went to sink at last in your destiny. Your life from then on was a suicide, a maelstrom of horrors and alcohol. Last night you killed yourself already completely and my emotion mourns you in your rest... Heart! I wish God to protect your dream. doll of love that could not reach its illusion. I wanted to do more but it was only a longing. May your soul forgive my life its best effort. In white when I die, your hope will come, dressed as a bride before God... as she dreamed.

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  1. InfamiaFrancisco Canaro · Eduardo Adrian · no clip yet1941

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