Song
Cafetín de Buenos Aires · Miguel Caló · 1967
1948: 2, 1; 1953: 1, 0; 1957: 1, 0; 1964: 1, 0; 1967: 1, 0; 1968: 1, 6; 1977: 1, 0
Mariano Mores recorded it in 1953, 1957 and 1977.
How we know
Takes in our catalogue by the same orchestra in different years; the canon’s first orchestra is named.
Cafetín de Buenos Aires · Miguel Caló · 1967 was sung by Alberto Marino.† Cafetín de Buenos Aires · Miguel Caló · 1967 is a tango.† Cafetín de Buenos Aires · Miguel Caló · 1967 lasts 02:41.†
Credit
- Music
- Mariano Mores
- Lyrics
- Mariano Mores
Source: TangoCloud catalogue
Every recording
8 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 19 more we know of
Choose A and B on two recordings to hear them one after the other.
- Aníbal TroiloEarliest we holdEdmundo Rivero · RCA Victor · Jul 81 dance1948
- Miguel CalóAlberto Marino · Odeon · May 15Not danced on film yet1967
- Osvaldo FresedoOsvaldo Cordo · RCA Victor · Jul 20Not danced on film yet1948
- José BassoHéctor de Rosas · Music HallNot danced on film yet1964
- Roberto GoyenecheMost dancedInstrumental · Mar 146 dances1968
- Mariano MoresInstrumentalNot danced on film yet1953
- Mariano MoresEnrique Lucero · Jan 21Not danced on film yet1957
- Mariano MoresNito MoresNot danced on film yet1977
- 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 catalogueInstrumental1973
- 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 catalogueInstrumental
Lyrics
Español
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.
Data: recordings, facts and sources
In other catalogues1
tango.info · 02480002043560-1-15
Single sourceSingers1
Sung by Alberto Marino
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Is a tango
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Duration 02:41
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