Niño bien · 1928

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Niño bien, pretencioso y engrupido, que tenés berretín de figurar; niño bien que llevás dos apellidos y que usás de escritorio el Petit Bar; pelandrún que la vas de distinguido y siempre hablás de la estancia de papá, mientras tu viejo, pa' ganarse el puchero, todos los días sale a vender fainá. Vos te creés que porque hablás de ti, fumás tabaco inglés paseás por Sarandí, y te cortás las patillas a lo Rodolfo sos un fifí. Porque usás la corbata carmín y allá en el Chantecler la vas de bailarín, y te mandás la biaba de gomina, te creés que sos un rana y sos un pobre gil. Niño bien, que naciste en el suburbio de un bulín alumbrao a querosén, que tenés pedigrée bastante turbio y decís que sos de familia bien, no manyás que estás mostrando la hilacha y al caminar con aire triunfador se ve bien claro que tenés mucha clase para lucirte detrás de un mostrador.

English · machine translation

Well child, pretentious and engrupido, that you have the pretentiousness to appear; you're a good boy with two surnames and that you use the Petit Bar as a desk; you're a big shot who pretends to be a distinguished man and you always talk about daddy's ranch, while your old man, in order to earn a living, every day he goes out to sell fainá. You think that because you talk about yourself, you smoke English tobacco you walk along Sarandí and cut your sideburns in the Rodolfo style you are a fifi. Because you wear a crimson tie and there at the Chantecler you go as a dancer, and you send your hair gel on your face, you think you're a frog and you are a poor fool. Good boy, that you were born in the suburbs of a kerosene-lit bulín, you've got a pretty shady pedigree and you say you come from a good family, don't you know that you are showing your true colors and when you walk with a triumphant air it is very clear that you have a lot of class to show off behind a counter.