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Por una cabeza · Atilio Stampone · 1972

Music by Carlos Gardel, lyrics by Alfredo Le Pera. 6 recordings in our catalogue, 1935–2006.

Credit

Music
Carlos Gardel
Lyrics
Alfredo Le Pera

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Every recording

6 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 17 more we know of

  1. Francisco LomutoEarliest we holdJorge Omar · RCA Victor · Aug 8
    3 dances
    1935
  2. Terig TucciNot in our catalogueCarlos Gardel · Mar 19 · tango.info1935
  3. Miguel CalóCarlos Barbé · Odeon · Apr 8
    Not danced on film yet
    1953
  4. Donato RacciattiNot in our catalogueCarlos Roldán · tango.info1960
  5. Francisco CanaroArgentino Ledesma · Odeon · Nov 18
    Not danced on film yet
    1969
  6. Atilio StamponeRoberto Goyeneche · Oct 6
    Not danced on film yet
    1972
  7. Hugo DiazMost dancedInstrumental
    10 dances
    1975
  8. Alfredo De AngelisNot in our catalogueCarlos Aguirre · Sep 24 · tango.info1976
  9. QuinTangoNot in our catalogueInstrumental · tango.info1998
  10. Orquesta Matos RodríguezNot in our catalogueDaniel Cortés · tango.info2005
  11. Orquesta Típica ImperialJulio César Fernán · Aug 1
    Not danced on film yet
    2006
  12. Emilio RamilNot in our cataloguetango.info
  13. Alberto Di PauloNot in our catalogueJorge Valdez · tango.info
  14. Donato RacciattiNot in our catalogueInstrumental · tango.info
  15. Esteban MorgadoNot in our catalogue-unspecified male-, -choir- · tango.info
  16. -unspecified female-Not in our cataloguetango.info
  17. Juanjo DomínguezNot in our catalogueInstrumental · tango.info
  18. Trio PantangoNot in our catalogueInstrumental · tango.info
  19. Conjunto Los cosos de al laoNot in our catalogueInstrumental · tango.info
  20. Muzet RoyalNot in our catalogueCaio Rodríguez · tango.info

Lyrics

Español · Underlined words are lunfardo: tap one for its meaning.

Por una cabeza de un noble potrillo que justo en la raya afloja al llegar, y que al regresar parece decir: No olvidés, hermano, vos sabés, no hay que jugar. Por una cabeza, de un día de aquella coqueta y burlona mujer, que al jurar sonriendo el amor que está mintiendo, quema en una hoguera todo mi querer. Por una cabeza, todas las locuras. Su boca que besa, borra la tristeza, calma la amargura. Por una cabeza, si ella me olvida qué importa perderme mil veces la vida, para qué vivir. Cuántos desengaños, por una cabeza. Yo juré mil veces, no vuelvo a insistir. Pero si un mirar me hiere al pasar, sus labios de fuego otra vez quiero besar. Basta de carreras, se acabó la timba. ¡Un final reñido ya no vuelvo a ver! Pero si algún pingo llega a ser fija el domingo, yo me juego entero. ¡Qué le voy a hacer..!

English · machine translation

For a head of a noble colt that right at the line loosens on arrival, and when returning seems to say: Don't forget, brother, you know, don't play. For a head, one day's metejon of that flirtatious and mocking woman who, while swearing smiling the love she's lying, burns in a bonfire all my love. For a head, all the follies. Her kissing mouth erases sadness, soothes bitterness. For a head, if she forgets me what does it matter to lose me a thousand times life, why live. How many disappointments, for one head. I swore a thousand times, I will not insist again. But if a glance wounds me as I pass by, her fiery lips I want to kiss again. No more running, the game is over. A close finish I'll never see again! But if any pingo becomes fixed on Sunday, I'll bet the whole thing. What can I do!

What we don't know yet4 of 5 known

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Data: recordings, facts and sources

Recordings by year

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

19352006

1935: 1, 1953: 1, 1969: 1, 1972: 1, 1975: 1, 2006: 1

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  1. Por una cabezaFrancisco Lomuto · Jorge Omar1935

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