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A mis manos

Music by Alfredo Gobbi, lyrics by Julio Camilloni. 2 recordings in our catalogue, 1955–1955.

A mis manos was composed by Alfredo Gobbi.†† The lyrics of A mis manos are by Julio Camilloni.†

Credit

Music
Alfredo Gobbi
Lyrics
Julio Camilloni

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Every recording

2 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 3 more we know of

1950

Choose A and B on two recordings to hear them one after the other.

  1. Alfredo GobbiEarliest we holdMost dancedAlfredo Del Rio · Mar 28
    2 dances
    1955
  2. Héctor VarelaArgentino Ledesma · May 19
    Not danced on film yet
    1955
  3. Alfredo J. GobbiNot in our catalogueAlfredo del Río · Mar 281955
  4. -unspecified guitars-Not in our catalogueAlberto Marino · May 191955
  5. -unspecified guitars-Not in our catalogueJorge Casal

Lyrics

Español

Mis manos nacieron ciegas y acunan sus locos sueños. No saben que no se puede tocar con ellas el cielo. Por eso golpearon puertas que a mis golpes no se abrieron. Ella ya estaba lejana y yo fui un mendigo ciego. Mis manos fueron dos llamas y solas se consumieron porque ella fue indiferente como una estatua de hielo. Por eso las tengo ahora como si fueran de yeso, dos manos desesperadas, aferradas a un recuerdo. ¡Ay, cómo se equivocaron las ciegas manos que tengo! Mis manos puse en las manos de un amigo y tuve miedo. No fueron manos leales, se cumplió el presentimiento. La vez que se hicieron puño fueron dos puños de acero y me golpearon el rostro por no golpear rostro ajeno. ¡Ay, cómo se equivocaron las ciegas manos que tengo! Soldado del infortunio llevo un brazalete negro. ¡Se llevaron a mi madre y ellas no la detuvieron! Fue el error más lamentable que mis manos cometieron... Ayudaron a llevarla... ¡Nunca sabrán lo que han hecho! ¡Ay, cómo se equivocaron las ciegas manos que tengo!

English · machine translation

My hands were born blind and cradle their crazy dreams. They don't know that you can't touch the sky with them. That's why they knocked on doors that didn't open to my knocks. She was already far away and I was a blind beggar. My hands were two flames and alone they were consumed because she was indifferent like a statue of ice. That's why I have them now as if they were made of plaster, two desperate hands, clinging to a memory. Oh, how the blind hands I have the blind hands I have! I put my hands in the hands of a friend and I was afraid. They were not loyal hands, the presentiment was fulfilled. The time they became a fist they were two fists of steel and they hit my face for not hitting someone else's face. Oh, how the blind hands I have the blind hands that I have! Soldier of misfortune I wear a black armband. They took my mother and they didn't stop her! It was the most regrettable mistake my hands ever made... They helped to take her... They will never know what they have done! Oh, how the blind hands I have the blind hands I have!

What we don't know yet3 of 4 known

The year it was written.

Data: recordings, facts and sources

Composer1

Composed by Alfredo Gobbi

Supported · 2

In other catalogues4

tango.info · T0370353175

Single source

TodoTango · tema/1834

Single source

MusicBrainz · 1fbd36b7-d539-44ac-856e-c3e4e9e2af5csource

Single source

ISWC · T-037.035.317-5source

Single source

Lyricist1

Lyrics by Julio Camilloni

Single source

Listen

  1. A mis manosAlfredo Gobbi · Alfredo del Rio1955
  2. A mis manosHéctor Varela · Argentino Ledesma1955

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