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Song

Siete palabras · 1948

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Music by Juan Maglio, lyrics by Alfredo Bigeschi. 6 recordings in our catalogue, 1930–1972.

Pinned at 1948 · Golden Age 1935–1954

The song

The piece as people name it, whoever plays it.

5 orchestras recorded it

101 Dances filmed to it

Who wrote it

Music
Juan Maglio
Words
Alfredo Bigeschi
Written
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Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Lyrics

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¿No ves qué dolor, qué pesar le quedó a mi fiel y angustiado corazón? Desde aquel día que vos te fuiste, mi vida paso fulero y triste... Qué mal te portaste con el que te supo querer sin falsía y con amor. Y vos echaste todo al olvido, lo que yo he sido para vos... Yo jamás iba a pensar pagaras vos tan mal todo aquel bien que con amor te supe hacer. De la calle te saqué pa’ no verte padecer. Y aquí en mi pobre calmaste tu sufrir, tu padecer y hallaste en mí a un hombre fiel que supo darte calor de nido, abrigo y un puchero pa’ comer. Te faltó la valentía pa’ decirme: ¡Chau me voy... me voy con otro de más hombría, que ya estoy harta de vos! Sólo hallé, sobre la mesa, escritas en un papel, siete palabras que componían tu despedida cruel.

English · machine translation

Don't you see what pain, what sorrow was left to my faithful and anguished heart? Since that day that you left my life has passed so sad and sad... How badly you behaved with the one who knew how to love you without falsehood and with love. And you threw everything into oblivion, what I have been for you... I would never have thought you would pay so badly all that good that with love I knew how to do for you. I took you off the street so as not to see you suffer. And here in my poor bulín you calmed your suffering, your suffering and you found in me a faithful man who knew how to give you the warmth of a nest, shelter and a pot to eat. You lacked the courage to say to me: Bye, I'm leaving... I'm going with someone else with more manhood, I've had enough of you! I only found, on the table, written on a piece of paper, seven words that made up your cruel farewell.

Every version

Computed from the catalogue, not yet written by anyone

The catalogue holds 6 recordings of this song by 5 orchestras, 1930 to 1972.
1930’40’50’60’70
Recordings of Siete palabras · 1948 by year, taller the more they are danced · 6 of 6 recordings carry a year · read Nov 1, 2026

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

a version people dance tono Dances matched yet: something to listen to

The leader is Carlos Di Sarli, with 94% of the 101 filmed dances matched to a version of this song.

6 more dances name this song but not which version, so no share counts them. “No match yet” means no filmed dance is tied to that version so far, not that nobody dances it. Dances whose music we have not identified are left out.

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

  1. Juan MaglioEarliest we holdSiete palabrasJuan MaglioCarlos Vivántango
    6 dances · 6%
    1930
  2. Cuarteto Típico Los AsesSiete palabrasCuarteto Típico Los Asesinstrumentaltango
    No match yet
    1942
  3. Ricardo PedevillaSiete palabrasRicardo PedevillainstrumentaltangoPampa
    No match yet
    1951
  4. Miguel VillasboasSiete palabrasMiguel Villasboassinger unknowntango
    No match yet
    1972
  5. Juan Félix MaglioNot in our catalogueCarlos Viván · Sep 121930
  6. Adolfo PérezNot in our catalogueAug 161948
  7. Francisco LauroNot in our catalogueArgentino Oliver1952
  8. Leopoldo FedericoNot in our catalogue

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  1. Siete palabrasJuan MaglioCarlos Viván

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