Song
Romance de barrio · Juan José Mosalini · 2006
Juan José Mosalinisinger unknownvalsPinned at 2006 · Electronic and festival era 2000–
The song
The piece as people name it, whoever plays it.
4 orchestras recorded it
118 Dances filmed to it
Who wrote it
- Music
- Aníbal Troilo
- Words
- Homero Manzi
- Written
- not yet cited · help fill it
- First played
- not yet cited · help fill it
Source: TangoCloud catalogue
Lyrics
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Primero la cita lejana de abril, tu oscuro balcón, tu antiguo jardín. Más tarde las cartas de pulso febril mintiendo que no, jurando que sí. Romance de barrio tu amor y mi amor. Primero un querer, después un dolor, por culpas que nunca tuvimos, por culpas que debimos sufrir los dos. Hoy vivirás despreciándome, tal vez sin soñar que lamento al no poderte tener el dolor de no saber olvidar. Hoy estarás como nunca lejos mío, lejos de tanto llorar. Fue porque sí, que el despecho te cegó como a mí, sin mirar que en el rencor del adiós castigabas con crueldad tu corazón. Fue porque sí que de pronto no supimos pensar, que es más fácil renegar y partir que vivir sin olvidar. Ceniza del tiempo la cita de abril, tu oscuro balcón, tu antiguo jardín las cartas trazadas con mano febril mintiendo que no, jurando que sí. Retornan vencidas tu voz y mi voz trayendo al volver con tonos de horror, las culpas que nunca tuvimos las culpas que debimos pagar los dos.
English · machine translation
First the distant April rendezvous, your dark balcony, your old garden. Later the letters of feverish pulse lying no, swearing yes. Neighborhood romance your love and my love. First a love, then a pain, for faults we never had, for faults we should have both suffered. Today you will live despising me, perhaps without dreaming that I regret not being able to have you the pain of not knowing how to forget. Today you will be as never far from me, far from so much crying. It was because that spite blinded you as it did me, without looking that in the rancor of goodbye you punished your heart with cruelty. It was because that suddenly we didn't know how to think, that it is easier to renege and leave than to live without forgetting. Ashes of time the date of April, your dark balcony, your old garden the letters drawn with a feverish hand lying no, swearing yes. Your voice and my voice return defeated bringing back with tones of horror the faults we never had the faults we should have paid for both of us.
Every version
Computed from the catalogue, not yet written by anyone
5 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 17 more we know of
a version people dance tono Dances matched yet: something to listen to
The leader is Aníbal Troilo, 1947, with 97% of the 118 filmed dances matched to a version of this song.
18 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.
- Aníbal TroiloEarliest we holdMost dancedRomance de barrioAníbal TroiloFloreal RuizvalsRCA Victor114 dances · 97%1947
- Orquesta Típica SilencioRomance de barrioOrquesta Típica Silenciosinger unknownvals4 dances · 3%2005
- Quinteto Real (Horacio Salgán)Romance de barrioQuinteto Real (Horacio Salgán)singer unknownvalsColumbiaNo match yet1960
- Susana RinaldiNot in our catalogue1969
- Los Indios TacunaoNot in our catalogue1969
- Carlos GarcíaNot in our catalogueOscar Alonso · Sep 101969
- Hernán SalinasNot in our catalogueAug 41980
- Anibal Arias, Osvaldo José MontesNot in our catalogue
- Ernesto BaffaNot in our catalogue
- Ernesto Baffa, Osvaldo BerlingieriNot in our catalogueRoberto Goyeneche
- Franco LucianiNot in our catalogue
- Roberto GoyenecheNot in our catalogue
- Hugo DíazNot in our catalogue
- Juan José MosaliniNot in our catalogue
- Rodolfo MederosNot in our catalogue
- Conjunto Los cosos de al laoNot in our catalogue
- Los muchachos de antesNot in our catalogue
- Muzet RoyalNot in our catalogue
- Orquesta SilencioNot in our catalogue
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- EntryRomance de barrio · Juan José Mosalini · 2001Recording
- EntryLa bordona · Juan José Mosalini · 2006Recording
- EntryNorteño · Juan José Mosalini · 2006Recording
- EntryOjos negros · Juan José Mosalini · 2006Recording
- EntryCabulero · Juan José Mosalini · 2006Recording
- EntryLa transa · Juan José Mosalini · 2006Recording
- EntryTaconeando · Juan José Mosalini · 2006Recording
- EntryCiudad triste · Juan José Mosalini · 2006Recording
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