Song
Buenos Aires · Carlos Gardel · 1930
1930: 1, 0; 1941: 1, 0; 1942: 1, 0; 1949: 1, 0; 1952: 1, 0; 1954: 1, 0; 1956: 2, 1; 1960: 1, 0; 1965: 2, 0; 2020: 1, 11
Aníbal Troilo recorded it in 1942, 1952 and 1965. One other orchestra recorded it more than once.
How we know
Takes in our catalogue by the same orchestra in different years; the canon’s first orchestra is named.
Credit
- Music
- Manuel Jovés
- Lyrics
- Manuel Romero
Source: TangoCloud catalogue
Every recording
12 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 15 more we know of
Choose A and B on two recordings to hear them one after the other.
- Carlos Di SarliRoberto Florio · RCA Victor · Apr 26Not danced on film yet1956
- Aníbal TroiloFrancisco Fiorentino · RCA Victor · Dec 29Not danced on film yet1942
- Aníbal TroiloJorge Casal · TKNot danced on film yet1952
- Aníbal TroiloTito Reyes · RCA Victor · Dec 30Not danced on film yet1965
- Francisco CanaroAlberto Arenas · Odeon · Apr 13Not danced on film yet1949
- Francisco LomutoEarliest we holdInstrumental · Odeon · Apr 15Not danced on film yet1930
- Francisco LomutoJorge Omar · RCA Victor · Jun 27Not danced on film yet1941
- Armando PontierOscar Ferrari · Oct 171 dance1956
- Florindo SassoneOscar Macri · Odeon · Aug 23Not danced on film yet1965
- Quinteto Real (Horacio Salgán)Instrumental · ColumbiaNot danced on film yet1960
- Orquesta Típica SilencioMost dancedHernán Genovese · Jun 111 dances2020
- Eduardo Del PianoHéctor de Rosas · Nov 16Not danced on film yet1954
- Guillermo Barbieri, José RicardoNot in our catalogueCarlos Gardel1923
- Roberto FirpoNot in our catalogueInstrumental1923
- Carlos GardelNot in our catalogue1930
- Ángel Domingo Riverol, Guillermo Barbieri, José María AguilarNot in our catalogueCarlos Gardel1930
- Carlos GardelNot in our catalogueMar 201930
- Carlos GardelNot in our catalogueApr 11930
- Ciriaco OrtizNot in our catalogueInstrumental · Jul 11948
- Hugo del CarrilNot in our catalogue1965
Lyrics
Español · Underlined words are lunfardo: tap one for its meaning.
Buenos Aires la Reina del Plata, Buenos Aires mi tierra querida; escuchá mi canción que con ella va mi vida. En mis horas de fiebre y orgía, harto ya de placer y locura, en ti pienso patria mía para calmar mi amargura. Noches porteñas, bajo tu manto dichas y llanto muy juntos van. Risas y besos, corrida, todo se olvida con el champán. Y a la salida de la milonga se oye a una nena pidiendo pan, por algo es que en el gotán siempre solloza una pena. Y al compás rezongón de los fuelles un a la mina la embrolla, y el llorar del violín va pintando el alma criolla. Buenos Aires, cual a una querida si estás lejos mejor hay que amarte, y decir toda la vida antes morir que olvidarte.
English · machine translation
Buenos Aires the Queen of the River Plate, Buenos Aires my beloved land; listen to my song that my life goes with it. In my hours of fever and orgy fed up with pleasure and madness, I think of you, my homeland to calm my bitterness. Porteño nights, under your mantle joy and tears go hand in hand. Laughter and kisses, a long night out, all is forgotten with champagne. And at the exit of the milonga a girl can be heard begging for bread, it's not for nothing that in the gotán always sobs a sorrow. And to the rhythmic beat of the bellows a bacán (a bacán) makes the mine muddle, and the weeping of the violin painting the Creole soul. Buenos Aires, like a dear one if you are far away it is better to love you and say all your life rather die than forget you.
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