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Para qué vivir así · Alfredo Gobbi · 1953

Alfredo GobbiJorge Macieltango
Music by Luciano Leocata, lyrics by Reinaldo Yiso. 3 recordings in our catalogue, 1951–1953.

Pinned at 1953 · Golden Age 1935–1954 · Alfredo Gobbi recordings indexed 1947–1958

Para qué vivir así · Alfredo Gobbi · 1953 was sung by Jorge Maciel.†

The work

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Music
Luciano Leocata
Lyrics
Reinaldo Yiso

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Recordings

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The catalogue holds 3 recordings of this song by 3 orchestras, 1951 to 1953.

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1950
Recordings of Para qué vivir así · Alfredo Gobbi · 1953 by year, taller the more they are danced · 3 of 3 recordings carry a year · read Nov 1, 2026

3 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 2 more we know of

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

  1. Ricardo PedevillaPara qué vivir asíRicardo PedevillaLuis Omar ZuninotangoPampa
    Not danced on film yet
    1951
  2. Alfredo GobbiMost dancedPara qué vivir asíAlfredo GobbiJorge Macieltango
    3 dances
    1953
  3. Florindo SassoneEarliest we holdPara qué vivir asíFlorindo SassoneRodolfo GalétangoRCA Victor
    Not danced on film yet
    1951
  4. José BassoNot in our catalogueOscar Ferrari · Dec 111952
  5. Alfredo J. GobbiNot in our catalogueJorge Maciel · Jun 91953

Lyrics

Español

Las cadenas que te ataban a mi lado hoy las rompe mi conciencia al comprender que mis besos, mis caricias, te han cansado y he perdido para siempre tu querer. Aunque niegues diciendo: “Soy la misma”, yo comprendo que todo terminó. La verdad tan sólo quiero que me digas, aunque muera de dolor mi corazón. Será mejor para los dos separarnos de una vez. ¿Para qué vivir asi... Para qué? Vos soportando mis caricias y mis besos, yo comprendiendo que no es mío tu querer. ¿Por qué engañarnos y sufrir de este modo tan brutal? Yo no quiero soportar tu piedad. Aunque se rompa el corazón en mil pedazos gritame fuerte: ¡No te quiero más! No es culpable el corazón, si cualquier día, ha dejado de sentir una pasión. Es misterio incomprensible de la vida despreciar lo que se amó de corazón. Será tuyo mi amor hasta la muerte, tu cariño en cambio ya murió. Estas cosas son caprichos de la suerte, de la vida, del destino o qué se yo.

English · machine translation

The chains that bound you to my side today my conscience breaks them when I realize that my kisses, my caresses, have tired you out and I have lost your love forever. Although you deny saying: "I am the same", I understand that everything is over. The truth I only want you to tell me, even if my heart dies of pain. It will be better for both of us to separate once and for all. Why live like this... What's the use? You putting up with my caresses and my kisses, me realizing that your love is not mine. Why deceive us and suffer in this brutal way? I don't want to bear your pity. Even if my heart breaks into a thousand pieces shout loudly to me: I love you no more! The heart is not guilty, if any day, it has ceased to feel a passion. It is an incomprehensible mystery of life to despise what was loved from the heart. My love will be yours until death, your affection on the other hand has already died. These things are whims of fate, of life, of destiny or what do I know.

The versions dancers use

Music from 1953 · danced on film 2022–2023

20222023
By the year it was danced; each dance counts once, however many channels filmed it

2022: 1, 2023: 1

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What we don't know yet4 of 5 known

The record label.

Data: recordings, facts and sources

Singers1

Sung by Jorge MacielJun 9, 1953

Audio feature14

Audio feature 117.5

Audio feature 0.917

Audio feature C#

Audio feature minor

Audio feature 0.757

Audio feature -22.9

Audio feature 0.491

Audio feature 0.219

Audio feature 0.44

Audio feature 0.0

Audio feature 0.56

Audio feature 117.0

Audio feature 58.5

Audio feature step

Vocal1

Vocal sung

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  1. Para qué vivir asíFlorindo SassoneRodolfo Galé

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