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Flor de lino · 2014

Hernán Fernándezvals
Music by Héctor Stamponi, lyrics by Homero Expósito. 3 recordings in our catalogue, 1946–2014.

Who recorded it

Every version3

Earliest we hold: Miguel Caló, 1946

  1. Aníbal TroiloFloreal Ruiz1947
  2. Miguel CalóRaúl Iriarte1946
  3. Sexteto VisceralHernán Fernández2014

Pinned at 2014 · Electronic and festival era 2000–

The song

The piece as people name it, whoever plays it.

3 orchestras recorded it

67 Dances filmed to it

Who wrote it

Music
Héctor Stamponi
Words
Homero Expósito
Written
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First played
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Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Lyrics

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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...

Every version

Computed from the catalogue, not yet written by anyone

The catalogue holds 3 recordings of this song by 3 orchestras, 1946 to 2014.
1940’50’60’70’80’90’00’10
Recordings of Flor de lino · 2014 by year, taller the more they are danced · 3 of 3 recordings carry a year · read Nov 2, 2026

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

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

The leader is Aníbal Troilo, 1947, with 82% of the 67 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. Aníbal TroiloMost dancedFlor de linoAníbal TroiloFloreal RuizvalsRCA Victor
    55 dances · 82%
    1947
  2. Miguel CalóEarliest we holdFlor de linoMiguel CalóRaúl IriartevalsOdeon
    12 dances · 18%
    1946
  3. Sexteto VisceralFlor de linoSexteto VisceralHernán Fernándezvals
    No match 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

One recording

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Sexteto Visceral

Flor de linoSexteto VisceralHernán Fernándezvals

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