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Romance de barrio · Roberto Goyeneche · 1967

Music by Aníbal Troilo, lyrics by Homero Manzi. 5 recordings in our catalogue, 1947–2007.

Credit

Music
Aníbal Troilo
Lyrics
Homero Manzi

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Every recording

5 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube

  1. Aníbal TroiloEarliest we holdMost dancedFloreal Ruiz · RCA Victor · Aug 191947114 dances
  2. Quinteto Real (Horacio Salgán)Instrumental · Columbia1960
  3. Orquesta Típica SilencioInstrumental20054 dances
  4. Orquesta Típica ImperialCristina De Los Angeles · Aug 12006
  5. Orquesta Típica ImperialInstrumental2007

Lyrics

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Primero la cita lejana de abril, tu oscuro balcón, tu antiguo jardín. Más tarde las cartas de pulso febril mintiendo que no, jurando que sí. Romance de barrio tu amor y mi amor. Primero un querer, después un dolor, por culpas que nunca tuvimos, por culpas que debimos sufrir los dos. Hoy vivirás despreciándome, tal vez sin soñar que lamento al no poderte tener el dolor de no saber olvidar. Hoy estarás como nunca lejos mío, lejos de tanto llorar. Fue porque sí, que el despecho te cegó como a mí, sin mirar que en el rencor del adiós castigabas con crueldad tu corazón. Fue porque sí que de pronto no supimos pensar, que es más fácil renegar y partir que vivir sin olvidar. Ceniza del tiempo la cita de abril, tu oscuro balcón, tu antiguo jardín las cartas trazadas con mano febril mintiendo que no, jurando que sí. Retornan vencidas tu voz y mi voz trayendo al volver con tonos de horror, las culpas que nunca tuvimos las culpas que debimos pagar los dos.

English · machine translation

First the distant April rendezvous, your dark balcony, your old garden. Later the letters of feverish pulse lying no, swearing yes. Neighborhood romance your love and my love. First a love, then a pain, for faults we never had, for faults we should have both suffered. Today you will live despising me, perhaps without dreaming that I regret not being able to have you the pain of not knowing how to forget. Today you will be as never far from me, far from so much crying. It was because that spite blinded you as it did me, without looking that in the rancor of goodbye you punished your heart with cruelty. It was because that suddenly we didn't know how to think, that it is easier to renege and leave than to live without forgetting. Ashes of time the date of April, your dark balcony, your old garden the letters drawn with a feverish hand lying no, swearing yes. Your voice and my voice return defeated bringing back with tones of horror the faults we never had the faults we should have paid for both of us.

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Source: TangoCloud catalogue

19472007

1947: 1, 1960: 1, 2005: 1, 2006: 1, 2007: 1

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Our data: filmed Performances on TangoTube that danced both, and DJs' public tandas on TangoCloud that hold both.

  1. MerceditasOrquesta Simbolo Osmar Maderna, 1958 · danced together in 2 Performances

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  1. Romance de barrioAníbal Troilo · Floreal Ruiz1947

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