La muchachada del centro · Francisco Canaro · 1932

Español · Underlined words are lunfardo: tap one for its meaning.

¿Qué decís? ¿Qué decís y qué contás, chico bien, que te veo tan fané? ¿Qué decís? ¿Vos también te has desfondao y has quedao con la crisis desplumao? ¿Qué decís? ¿Te ha cachao el temporal a vos también y estás seco y sin boleto en el andén? ¡Y si sigue así la serie te estoy viendo a la intemperie y alumbrao a querosén! Yo sé que ves a papá y lo mangás y te ensartás, y que ves a mamá y le pedís y no da más; que has empeñao la voiturette y en colectivo la viajás; que ya no vas al cabaret y con café te conformás; que no podés firmar una adición de cero diez porque van a cobrar y les hablás de pagarés; que no tenés dónde hacer pie porque la crisis te la dio. ¡Con esa crisis yo soné y vos igual que yo! ¿Qué decís? ¿Qué decís? ¿Cómo te va, chico bien? ¡Quién te ha visto y quién te ve!... ¿Qué decís? Vos tirabas los de a mil y has quedao masticando perejil... ¿Qué decís? Como a todos la maroma te ha cachao y has quedao en la palmera disecao ... Que como el refrán opina todo bicho que camina es porque no está parao...

English · machine translation

What do you say? What do you say and what do you say, good boy, that I see you so much fané? What do you say? Have you also gone off the deep end and you have been left with the crisis plucked? What do you say? Have you been caught in the storm you too and you're dry and without a ticket on the platform? And if the series goes on like this I'm seeing you out in the open and lit up with kerosene! I know that you see daddy and you're holding him and you're strung up, and that you see mom and you ask her and she doesn't give more; that you've pawned the car and you travel by bus; that you no longer go to the cabaret and with coffee you make do; that you can't sign an addition of zero ten because they are going to collect and you talk to them about promissory notes; that you have nowhere to stand because the crisis gave it to you. With that crisis I sounded and so did you! What do you say? What do you say? How are you doing, well boy? Who's seen you and who's seen you!... What do you say? You used to throw a thousand and you're left chewing parsley... What do you say? Like all of us, the maroma has caught you and you've been left in the palm tree disecao ... That as the saying goes every bug that walks is because it's not standing still...