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Milonga sentimental · Carlos Gardel · 1933

Carlos Gardelsungmilonga
Music by Sebastián Piana, lyrics by Homero Manzi. 4 recordings in our catalogue, 1932–1969.

Who recorded it

Every version4

Earliest we hold: Adolfo Carabelli, 1932

  1. Francisco CanaroErnesto Famá · Ángel Ramos1933
  2. Adolfo CarabelliCarlos Lafuente1932
  3. Fulvio SalamancaArmando Guerrico · Mario Luna1958
  4. Osvaldo Manzi Y El Octeto Marabú1969

Pinned at 1933 · Guardia Nueva 1920–1934

The song

The piece as people name it, whoever plays it.

4 orchestras recorded it

70 Dances filmed to it

Who wrote it

Music
Sebastián Piana
Words
Homero Manzi
Written
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First played
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Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Lyrics

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Milonga pa' recordarte, milonga sentimental. Otros se quejan llorando, yo canto por no llorar. Tu amor se secó de golpe, nunca dijiste por qué. Yo me consuelo pensando que fue traición de mujer. Varón, pa' quererte mucho, varón, pa' desearte el bien, varón, pa' olvidar agravios porque ya te perdoné. Tal vez no lo sepas nunca, tal vez no lo puedas creer, ¡tal vez te provoque risa verme tirao a tus pies! Es fácil pegar un tajo pa' cobrar una traición, o jugar en una daga la suerte de una pasión. Pero no es fácil cortarse los tientos de un , cuando están bien amarrados al palo del corazón. Milonga que hizo tu ausencia. Milonga de evocación. Milonga para que nunca la canten en tu balcón. Pa' que vuelvas con la noche y te vayas con el sol. Pa' decirte que sí a veces o pa' gritarte que no.

English · machine translation

Milonga to remember you, sentimental milonga. Others complain crying, I sing for not crying. Your love dried up all of a sudden, you never said why. I console myself thinking that it was a woman's betrayal. Man, to love you very much, male, to wish you well, man, to forget grievances because I have already forgiven you. Maybe you will never know it, maybe you can't believe it, maybe it'll make you laugh to see me lying at your feet! It's easy to take a slash to collect a betrayal, or play on a dagger the fate of a passion. But it is not easy to cut to cut off one's own tientos when they are well tied to the stick of the heart. Milonga that made your absence. Milonga of evocation. Milonga never to be sung be sung on your balcony. For you to return with the night and leave with the sun. To say yes sometimes or to yell no.

Every version

Computed from the catalogue, not yet written by anyone

The catalogue holds 4 recordings of this song by 4 orchestras, 1932 to 1969.
1930’40’50’60
Recordings of Milonga sentimental · Carlos Gardel · 1933 by year, taller the more they are danced · 4 of 4 recordings carry a year · read Nov 2, 2026

4 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 20 more we know of

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

The leader is Francisco Canaro, 1933, with 90% of the 70 filmed dances matched to a version of this song.

14 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. Francisco CanaroMost dancedMilonga sentimentalFrancisco CanaroErnesto Famá, Ángel RamosmilongaOdeon
    63 dances · 90%
    1933
  2. Fulvio SalamancaMilonga sentimentalFulvio SalamancaArmando Guerrico, Mario Lunamilonga
    4 dances · 6%
    1958
  3. Adolfo CarabelliEarliest we holdMilonga sentimentalAdolfo CarabelliCarlos Lafuentemilonga
    3 dances · 4%
    1932
  4. Osvaldo Manzi Y El Octeto MarabúMilonga sentimentalOsvaldo Manzi Y El Octeto MarabúmilongaMicrofon
    No match yet
    1969
  5. -unspecified orchestra-Not in our catalogueMercedes Simone · Oct 41932
  6. Francisco CanaroNot in our catalogueAda Falcón · Dec 121932
  7. Ángel Domingo Riverol, Domingo Julio Vivas, Guillermo Barbieri, Horacio PettorossiNot in our catalogueCarlos Gardel · Jan 231933
  8. -unspecified guitars-Not in our catalogueAlberto Vila, Alberto Gómez · Jan 251933
  9. Mercedes SimoneNot in our catalogue1937
  10. Tito RiberoNot in our catalogueVirginia Luque1959
  11. Ensemble HyperionNot in our catalogueAntonella Ruggiero · Jul 212010
  12. Agustín IrustaNot in our catalogue
  13. Alberto GómezNot in our catalogue
  14. Emilio RamilNot in our catalogue
  15. Lidia BordaNot in our catalogue
  16. Mercedes SimoneNot in our catalogue
  17. Hugo del CarrilNot in our catalogue
  18. Mariano MoresNot in our catalogue
  19. Juanjo DomínguezNot in our catalogue
  20. Miguel VillasboasNot in our catalogue

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  1. Milonga sentimentalAdolfo CarabelliCarlos Lafuente

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