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Flor de lino · Aníbal Troilo · 1947

Music by Héctor Stamponi, lyrics by Homero Expósito. 3 recordings in our catalogue, 1946–2014.
1946: 1 · danced 12 times1947: 1 · danced 54 times2014: 1 · danced 0 times
1946’60’70’80’90’002014
records madedanced on film, by the record’s year· our catalogue

1946: 1, 12; 1947: 1, 54; 2014: 1, 0

Flor de lino · Aníbal Troilo · 1947 was sung by Floreal Ruiz.† Flor de lino · Aníbal Troilo · 1947 is a vals.† Flor de lino · Aníbal Troilo · 1947 lasts 02:52.† Flor de lino · Aníbal Troilo · 1947: The closing waltz of the night.†

Credit

Music
Héctor Stamponi
Lyrics
Homero Expósito

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Every recording

3 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 9 more we know of

1940’50’60’70’80’90’00’10

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

  1. Aníbal TroiloMost dancedFloreal Ruiz · RCA Victor · Apr 29
    54 dances
    1947
  2. Miguel CalóEarliest we holdRaúl Iriarte · Odeon · Dec 3
    12 dances
    1946
  3. Sexteto VisceralHernán Fernández · Jul 1
    Not danced on film yet
    2014
  4. -unspecified guitars-Not in our catalogueOscar Alonso1946
  5. Anibal Arias, Osvaldo José MontesNot in our catalogue2007
  6. Nelson PinoNot in our catalogue2012
  7. Gustavo NocettiNot in our catalogue
  8. Anibal Arias, Osvaldo José MontesNot in our catalogue
  9. Esteban MorgadoNot in our catalogue-unspecified male-
  10. Miguel De CaroNot in our catalogue
  11. Sexteto MilongueroNot in our catalogue
  12. -unspecified guitars-Not in our catalogueOscar Alonso

Lyrics

Español

Deshojaba noches esperando en vano que le diera un beso, pero yo soñaba con el beso grande de la tierra en celo. Flor de Lino, qué raro destino truncaba un camino de linos en flor... Deshojaba noches cuando la esperaba por aquel sendero, llena de vergüenza, como los muchachos con un traje nuevo: ¡cuántas cosas que se fueron, y hoy regresan siempre por la siempre noche de mi soledad! Yo la vi florecer como el lino de un campo argentino maduro de sol... ¡Si la hubiera llegado a entender ya tendría en mi rancho el amor! Yo la vi florecer, pero un día, ¡mandinga la huella que me la llevó! Flor de Lino se fue y el hoy que el campo está en flor ¡ah malhaya! me falta su amor. Hay una tranquera por donde el recuerdo vuelve a la querencia, que el remordimiento de no haberla amado siempre deja abierta: Flor de Lino, te veo en la estrella que alumbra la huella de mi soledad... Deshojaba noches cuando me esperaba como yo la espero, lleno de esperanzas, como un gaucho pobre cuando llega al pueblo, flor de ausencia, tu recuerdo me persigue siempre por la siempre noche de mi soledad...

English · machine translation

She shed nights waiting in vain for me to give her a kiss, but I dreamed of the big kiss of the earth in heat. Linen flower, what a strange destiny truncated a path of flax in bloom... I was shedding nights when I was waiting for her on that path, full of shame, like boys in a new suit: how many things that went away, and today they always return for the ever night of my loneliness! I saw her bloom like the flax of a sun-ripened Argentine field.... If I had come to understand her I would have love on my ranch by now! I saw her bloom, but one day, I saw her bloom, but one day, the track that took her away! Flor de Lino is gone and today when the field is in bloom ah malhaya! I miss her love. There is a gate through which the memory returns to the love, that the remorse of not having loved her always leaves open: Flor de Lino, I see you in the star that illuminates the trace of my solitude... She was opening nights when she was waiting for me as I am waiting for her, full of hopes, like a poor gaucho when he arrives in town, flower of absence, your memory always haunts me through the everlasting night of my loneliness...

Danced to it

Music from 1947 · danced on film 2005–2026

20052026
By the year it was danced; each dance counts once, however many channels filmed it

2005: 1, 2007: 1, 2010: 1, 2011: 2, 2012: 1, 2013: 2, 2015: 3, 2017: 1, 2018: 8, 2019: 3, 2020: 1, 2021: 1, 2022: 1, 2023: 3, 2024: 1, 2025: 6, 2026: 4

Danced alongside it

Our data: the recordings most often danced in the same filmed Performance as this one (one Couple dancing one to eight songs). Nearer the middle, more Performances.

  1. 1De antañoJuan D'Arienzo, 1939 · danced together in 3 Performances
  2. 2TierritaJuan D'Arienzo, 1941 · danced together in 3 Performances
  3. 3RawsonJuan D'Arienzo, 1936 · danced together in 2 Performances
  4. 4Organito de la tardeCarlos Di Sarli, 1942 · danced together in 2 Performances
Data: recordings, facts and sources

In other catalogues25

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Singers1

Sung by Floreal Ruiz

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Is a1

Is a vals

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Duration1

Duration 02:52

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Audio feature15

Audio feature 105.5

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Audio feature 0.918

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Audio feature 0.839

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Audio feature -20.2

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Audio feature 0.386

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Audio feature 0.429

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Audio feature 0.043

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Audio feature 0.529

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Audio feature 107.5

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Audio feature 71.7

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Notes1

The closing waltz of the night.

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Vocal1

Vocal sung

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Listen

  1. Flor de linoMiguel Caló · Raúl Iriarte1946

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