Song
Barrio de tango · Mercedes Simone · 1943
Mercedes SimonesungtangoOdeonWho recorded it
Every version9Earliest we hold: Aníbal Troilo, 1942
Recorded 1943 · Golden Age 1935–1954
The song
The piece as people name it, whoever plays it.
7 orchestras recorded it
44 Dances filmed to it
Who wrote it
- Music
- Aníbal Troilo
- Words
- Homero Manzi
- Written
- not yet cited · help fill it
- First played
- not yet cited · help fill it
- Its words name
- Nueva Pompeya
Source: TangoCloud catalogue
Lyrics
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Un pedazo de barrio, allá en Pompeya, durmiéndose al costado del terraplén. Un farol balanceando en la barrera y el misterio de adiós que siembra el tren. Un ladrido de perros a la luna. El amor escondido en un portón. Y los sapos redoblando en la laguna y a lo lejos la voz del bandoneón. Barrio de tango, luna y misterio, calles lejanas, ¡cómo estarán! Viejos amigos que hoy ni recuerdo, ¡qué se habrán hecho, dónde estarán! Barrio de tango, qué fue de aquella, Juana, la rubia, que tanto amé. ¡Sabrá que sufro, pensando en ella, desde la tarde que la dejé! Barrio de tango, luna y misterio, ¡desde el recuerdo te vuelvo a ver! Un coro de silbidos allá en la esquina. El codillo llenando el almacén. Y el dramón de la pálida vecina que ya nunca salió a mirar el tren. Así evoco tus noches, barrio 'e tango, con las chatas entrando al corralón y la luna chapaleando sobre el fango y a lo lejos la voz del bandoneón.
English · machine translation
A piece of neighborhood, back in Pompeya, falling asleep at the side of the embankment. A lantern swinging on the barrier and the mystery of goodbye sowed by the train. A dog barking at the moon. Love hidden in a gate. And the toads drumming on the lagoon and in the distance the voice of the bandoneon. Neighborhood of tango, moon and mystery, distant streets, how they will be! Old friends that today I don't even remember, what have they done to each other, where are they! Tango neighborhood, what became of that one, Juana, the blonde, whom I loved so much. She must know that I suffer, thinking of her, since the afternoon I left her! Tango neighborhood, moon and mystery, from the memory I see you again! A chorus of whistles there on the corner. The elbow filling the storehouse. And the dramón of the pale neighbor who never came out to watch the train. That's how I evoke your nights, tango neighborhood, with the trucks entering the yard and the moon splashing on the mud and in the distance the voice of the bandoneon.
Every version
Computed from the catalogue, not yet written by anyone
9 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 14 more we know of
a version people dance tono Dances matched yet: something to listen to
The leader is Aníbal Troilo, with 89% of the 44 filmed dances matched to a version of this song.
1 more dance names this song but not which version, so no share counts it. “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.
- Miguel CalóBarrio de tangoMiguel CalóJorge OrtiztangoOdeon3 dances · 7%1943
- Ángel D'AgostinoBarrio de tangoÁngel D'AgostinoÁngel VargastangoRCA Victor2 dances · 5%1942
- Lucio DemareBarrio de tangoLucio DemareArmando GarridotangoTKNo match yet1956
- Armando PontierBarrio de tangoArmando PontierRoberto GoyenechetangoNo match yet1969
- Orquesta Típica ImperialBarrio de tangoOrquesta Típica ImperialCristina De Los AngelestangoNo match yet2006
- Sexteto VisceralBarrio de tangoSexteto VisceralHernán FernándeztangoNo match yet2017
- Mercedes SimoneNot in our catalogue1936
- Roberto GarzaNot in our catalogueMercedes Simone · May 121943
- Armando PontierNot in our catalogueRoberto Goyeneche · Aug 111968
- Alberto Di PauloNot in our catalogueNelly Omar1983
- Adriana VarelaNot in our catalogue
- Floreal RuízNot in our catalogue
- Edmundo RiveroNot in our catalogue
- Mercedes SimoneNot in our catalogue
- Nelly OmarNot in our catalogue
- Raúl LaviéNot in our catalogue
- Tito ReyesNot in our catalogue
- Osvaldo PiroNot in our catalogue
- Sexteto CanyengueNot in our catalogue-unspecified male-
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- Carina Lucca1 video
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