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Milonga sentimental · Adolfo Carabelli · 1932

Music by Sebastián Piana, lyrics by Homero Manzi. 4 recordings in our catalogue, 1932–1969.

Credit

Music
Sebastián Piana
Lyrics
Homero Manzi

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Every recording

4 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 20 more we know of

  1. Adolfo CarabelliEarliest we holdCarlos Lafuente
    3 dances
    1932
  2. -unspecified orchestra-Not in our catalogueMercedes Simone · Oct 41932
  3. Francisco CanaroNot in our catalogueAda Falcón · Dec 121932
  4. Francisco CanaroMost dancedErnesto Famá, Ángel Ramos · Odeon · Feb 9
    62 dances
    1933
  5. Ángel Domingo Riverol, Domingo Julio Vivas, Guillermo Barbieri, Horacio PettorossiNot in our catalogueCarlos Gardel · Jan 231933
  6. -unspecified guitars-Not in our catalogueAlberto Vila, Alberto Gómez · Jan 251933
  7. Mercedes SimoneNot in our catalogue1937
  8. Fulvio SalamancaArmando Guerrico, Mario Luna · Sep 18
    4 dances
    1958
  9. Tito RiberoNot in our catalogueVirginia Luque1959
  10. Osvaldo Manzi Y El Octeto MarabúInstrumental · Microfon
    Not danced on film yet
    1969
  11. Ensemble HyperionNot in our catalogueAntonella Ruggiero · Jul 212010
  12. Agustín IrustaNot in our catalogue
  13. Alberto GómezNot in our catalogue
  14. Emilio RamilNot in our catalogue
  15. Lidia BordaNot in our catalogue
  16. Mercedes SimoneNot in our catalogue
  17. Hugo del CarrilNot in our catalogue
  18. Mariano MoresNot in our catalogueInstrumental
  19. Juanjo DomínguezNot in our catalogueInstrumental
  20. Miguel VillasboasNot in our catalogueInstrumental

Lyrics

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Milonga pa' recordarte, milonga sentimental. Otros se quejan llorando, yo canto por no llorar. Tu amor se secó de golpe, nunca dijiste por qué. Yo me consuelo pensando que fue traición de mujer. Varón, pa' quererte mucho, varón, pa' desearte el bien, varón, pa' olvidar agravios porque ya te perdoné. Tal vez no lo sepas nunca, tal vez no lo puedas creer, ¡tal vez te provoque risa verme tirao a tus pies! Es fácil pegar un tajo pa' cobrar una traición, o jugar en una daga la suerte de una pasión. Pero no es fácil cortarse los tientos de un , cuando están bien amarrados al palo del corazón. Milonga que hizo tu ausencia. Milonga de evocación. Milonga para que nunca la canten en tu balcón. Pa' que vuelvas con la noche y te vayas con el sol. Pa' decirte que sí a veces o pa' gritarte que no.

English · machine translation

Milonga to remember you, sentimental milonga. Others complain crying, I sing for not crying. Your love dried up all of a sudden, you never said why. I console myself thinking that it was a woman's betrayal. Man, to love you very much, male, to wish you well, man, to forget grievances because I have already forgiven you. Maybe you will never know it, maybe you can't believe it, maybe it'll make you laugh to see me lying at your feet! It's easy to take a slash to collect a betrayal, or play on a dagger the fate of a passion. But it is not easy to cut to cut off one's own tientos when they are well tied to the stick of the heart. Milonga that made your absence. Milonga of evocation. Milonga never to be sung be sung on your balcony. For you to return with the night and leave with the sun. To say yes sometimes or to yell no.

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Music from 1932 · danced on film 2009

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Data: recordings, facts and sources

Recordings by year

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

19321969

1932: 1, 1933: 1, 1958: 1, 1969: 1

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  1. Milonga sentimentalAdolfo Carabelli · Carlos Lafuente1932

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