Song
Cafetín de Buenos Aires · Argentino Ledesma · 1959
Argentino LedesmasungtangoWho recorded it
Every version8Earliest we hold: Aníbal Troilo, 1948
Pinned at 1959 · Nuevo 1955–1984
The song
The piece as people name it, whoever plays it.
6 orchestras recorded it
7 Dances filmed to it
Who wrote it
- Music
- Mariano Mores
- Words
- Mariano Mores
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Source: TangoCloud catalogue
Lyrics
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De chiquilín te miraba de afuera como a esas cosas que nunca se alcanzan... La ñata contra el vidrio, en un azul de frío, que sólo fue después viviendo igual al mío... Como una escuela de todas las cosas, ya de muchacho me diste entre asombros: el cigarrillo, la fe en mis sueños y una esperanza de amor. Cómo olvidarte en esta queja, cafetín de Buenos Aires, si sos lo único en la vida que se pareció a mi vieja... En tu mezcla milagrosa de sabihondos y suicidas, yo aprendí filosofía... dados... timba... y la poesía cruel de no pensar más en mí. Me diste en oro un puñado de amigos, que son los mismos que alientan mis horas: (José, el de la quimera... Marcial, que aún cree y espera... y el flaco Abel que se nos fue pero aún me guía....). Sobre tus mesas que nunca preguntan lloré una tarde el primer desengaño, nací a las penas, bebí mis años y me entregué sin luchar.
English · machine translation
When I was a little boy I looked at you from the outside like those things that you never reach... The leg against the glass, in a cold blue, that was only later living the same as mine... Like a school of all things, already as a boy you gave me among astonishments: the cigarette, faith in my dreams and a hope of love. How to forget you in this complaint, coffee shop of Buenos Aires, if you are the only thing in life that resembled my old lady... In your miraculous mixture of know-it-alls and suicides, I learned philosophy... dice... timba... and the cruel poetry of not thinking about me anymore. You gave me, in gold, a handful of friends.., who are the same ones that encourage my hours: (José, the one of the chimera.... Marcial, who still believes and hopes? and the skinny Abel who left us but still guides me ....). On your tables that never ask questions I cried one afternoon the first disappointment, I was born to sorrows, I drank my years and gave myself up without a fight.
Every version
Computed from the catalogue, not yet written by anyone
8 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 19 more we know of
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- Aníbal TroiloEarliest we holdCafetín de Buenos AiresAníbal TroiloEdmundo RiverotangoRCA Victor1 dance1948
- Miguel CalóCafetín de Buenos AiresMiguel CalóAlberto MarinotangoOdeonNo match yet1967
- Osvaldo FresedoCafetín de Buenos AiresOsvaldo FresedoOsvaldo CordotangoRCA VictorNo match yet1948
- José BassoCafetín de Buenos AiresJosé BassoHéctor de RosastangoMusic HallNo match yet1964
- Roberto GoyenecheMost dancedCafetín de Buenos AiresRoberto Goyenechesungtango6 dances1968
- Hugo Di CarloNot in our cataloguePablo Moreno1948
- Héctor StamponiNot in our catalogueTania · Jul 11948
- Astor PiazzollaNot in our catalogueAlberto Fontán Luna · Nov 251948
- Osvaldo CordóNot in our catalogueOsvaldo Cordó1959
- Ángel DomínguezNot in our catalogueNelly Omar1967
- Raúl Miguel GarelloNot in our catalogueRoberto Goyeneche1968
- Hugo DíazNot in our catalogue1973
- Rubén JuárezNot in our catalogue
- Hugo del CarrilNot in our catalogue
- Susana RinaldiNot in our catalogue
- Virginia LuqueNot in our catalogue
- Alberto Di PauloNot in our catalogue
- Astor PiazzollaNot in our catalogue
- Héctor StamponiNot in our catalogueEdmundo Rivero
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