Muchacho · Edgardo Donato · 1951

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Muchacho que porque la suerte quiso vivís en un primer piso de un palacete central, que pa' vicios y placeres, para farras y mujeres disponés de un capital. Muchacho que no sabés el encanto de haber derramado llanto sobre un pecho de mujer; y no sabés qué es secarse en una timba y armarse para volverse a meter; que decís que un tango rante no te hace perder la calma y que no te llora el alma cuando gime un bandoneón; que si tenés sentimiento lo tenés adormecido pues todo lo has conseguido pagando como un chabón. Decime si en tu vida pelandruna, bajo la luz de la Luna o si no bajo un farol, no te has sentido poeta y le has dicho a una pebeta que ella es más linda que el Sol. Decime si conocés la armonía, la dulce policromía de las tardes de arrabal, cuando van las fabriqueras tentadoras y diqueras bajo el sonoro percal...

English · machine translation

Boy who, as luck would have it you live on the second floor of a central palace, that for vices and pleasures, for parties and women you have a capital at your disposal. Boy you don't know the charm of having shed tears on a woman's breast and you don't know what it is to dry yourself in a timba and to arm yourself to get back in again; that you say that a tango rante doesn't make you lose your temper and that your soul doesn't weep when a bandoneon wails; that if you have feeling you have it numbed because you have achieved everything by paying like a kid. Tell me if in your life you've ever been a brawler, under the moonlight or if not under a lantern you have not felt like a poet and told a little girl that she is prettier than the Sun. Tell me if you know the harmony, the sweet polychrome of the afternoons in the suburbs when the factory workers go temptresses and diqueras under the sonorous percale...