Song
La última curda · Hugo Diaz · 1972
Hugo DiaztangoWho recorded it
Every version9Earliest we hold: Aníbal Troilo, 1956
Pinned at 1972 · Nuevo 1955–1984 · Hugo Diaz recordings indexed 1972–1975
The song
The piece as people name it, whoever plays it.
6 orchestras recorded it
100 Dances filmed to it
Who wrote it
- Music
- Aníbal Troilo
- Words
- Catulo Castillo
- Written
- not yet cited · help fill it
- First played
- not yet cited · help fill it
Source: TangoCloud catalogue
Lyrics
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Lastima, bandoneón, mi corazon tu ronca maldición maleva... Tu lágrima de ron me lleva hasta el hondo bajo fondo donde el barro se subleva. ¡Ya sé, no me digás! ¡Tenés razón! La vida es una herida absurda, y es todo tan fugaz que es una curda, ¡nada más! mi confesión. Contame tu condena, decime tu fracaso, ¿no ves la pena que me ha herido? Y hablame simplemente de aquel amor ausente tras un retazo del olvido. ¡Ya sé que te lastimo! ¡Ya se que te hago daño llorando mi sermón de vino! Pero es el viejo amor que tiembla, bandoneón, y busca en el licor que aturde, la curda que al final termine la función corriéndole un telón al corazón. Un poco de recuerdo y sinsabor gotea tu rezongo lerdo. Marea tu licor y arrea la tropilla de la zurda al volcar la última curda. Cerrame el ventanal que arrastra el sol su lento caracol de sueño, ¿no ves que vengo de un país que está de olvido, siempre gris, tras el alcohol?...
English · machine translation
Too bad, bandoneon, my heart your hoarse evil curse... Your rum tear takes me to the deepest depths where the mud revolts. I know, don't tell me! You're right! Life is an absurd wound and it's all so fleeting that it's a cure, nothing more! my confession. Tell me your condemnation, tell me your failure, don't you see the sorrow that has wounded me? And tell me simply of that absent love behind a remnant of oblivion. I know I hurt you! I know I hurt you by crying my wine sermon! But it is the old love that trembles, bandoneon, and searches in the liquor that stuns, the cure that at the end ends the show by pulling back a curtain to the heart. A little bit of memory and flavorlessness drips your slow gossip. Tide your liquor and plough the left-handed troop when overturning the last curda. Close the window that drags the sun its slow snail of sleep, don't you see that I come from a country that is in oblivion, always gray, after alcohol...
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 75% of the 100 filmed dances matched to a version of this song.
2 more dances name this song but not which version, so no share counts them. “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.
- Astor PiazzollaLa última curdaAstor PiazzollaRoberto Goyenechetango17 dances · 17%1982
- Hugo DiazLa última curdaHugo Diaztango6 dances · 6%1972
- Alfredo GobbiLa última curdaAlfredo GobbiTito Landotango1 dance · 1%1957
- Armando PontierLa última curdaArmando PontierRoberto Goyenechetango1 dance · 1%1966
- Mercedes SimoneNot in our catalogue1932
- Mercedes SimoneNot in our catalogue1940
- Alfredo J. GobbiNot in our catalogueTito Landó · Jun 181957
- Emilio BrameriNot in our catalogueMercedes Simone1966
- Orquesta Matos RodríguezNot in our catalogueRicardo Olivera2005
- Cacho CastañaNot in our catalogue
- Susana RinaldiNot in our catalogue
- Alberto MarinoNot in our catalogue
- Anibal Arias, Osvaldo José MontesNot in our catalogue
- Esteban MorgadoNot in our catalogue
- Alba SolísNot in our catalogue
- Ensemble HyperionNot in our catalogueDiego Hernan
- Orquesta Típica PorteñaNot in our catalogueRoberto Goyeneche
- -unspecified male-Not in our catalogue
One recording
A dated take, with its sound and the couples dancing it.
Hugo Diaz
La última curdaHugo DiaztangoCouples filmed dancing this recording · 5 Performances
Danced to it
Music from 1972 · danced on film 2025
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- EntryLa última curda · Horacio Salgan · 1957Recording
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- Horacio Pebete Godoy2 videos
- Melina Mouriño2 videos
- Maricel Giacomini2 videos
- Luis Emilio Cappelletti2 videos
- René-Marie Meignan1 video
- Camila Ameglio1 video
- Javier Diaz1 video
- Diaz Gonzalez1 video
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