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Mi taza de café

Music by Alfredo Malerba, lyrics by Homero Manzi. 2 recordings in our catalogue, 1943–1944.

Mi taza de café was composed by Alfredo Malerba.

Mi taza de café is a tango.

Mi taza de café was published in 1943.

The lyrics of Mi taza de café are by Homero Manzi.

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Credit

Music
Alfredo Malerba
Lyrics
Homero Manzi

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Every recording

2 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube

  1. Ricardo MalerbaEarliest we holdMost dancedOrlando Medina · Nov 8194310 dances
  2. Orquesta Típica VictorAlberto Carol · RCA Victor · Mar 211944

Lyrics

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La tarde está muriendo detrás de la vidriera y pienso mientras tomo mi taza de café. Desfilan los recuerdos, los triunfos y las penas las luces y las sombras del tiempo que se fue. La calle está vacía igual que mi destino. Amigos y cariños, barajas del ayer. Fantasmas de la vida, mentiras del camino que evoco mientras tomo mi taza de café. Un día alegremente te conocí, ciudad. Llegué trayendo versos y sueños de triunfar. Te vi desde la altura de un cuarto de pensión y un vértigo de vida sintió mi corazón. Mi pueblo estaba lejos, perdido más allá. Tu noche estaba cerca, tu noche pudo más. Tus calles me llevaron, tu brillo me engañó, ninguno fue culpable, ninguno más que yo. El viento de la tarde revuelve la cortina. La mano del recuerdo me aprieta el corazón. La pena del otoño agranda la neblina: se cuela por la hendija de mi desolación Inútil pesimismo, deseo de estar triste. Manía de andar siempre pensando en el ayer. Fantasmas del pasado que vuelven y que insisten cuando en las tardes tomo mi taza de café.

English · machine translation

The afternoon is dying behind the shop window and I think as I sip my cup of coffee. Memories parade, triumphs and sorrows the lights and shadows of time gone by. The street is empty just like my destiny. Friends and sweethearts, decks of yesterday. Ghosts of life, lies of the road that I evoke while I drink my cup of coffee. One day I happily met you, city. I arrived bringing verses and dreams of triumph. I saw you from the height of a boarding house room and my heart felt a vertigo of life. My town was far away, lost beyond. Your night was near, your night was stronger. Your streets carried me away, your brightness deceived me, none was guilty, none more than me. The evening wind stirs the curtain. The hand of memory squeezes my heart. Autumn's sorrow enlarges the mist: It creeps through the crack of my desolation. Useless pessimism, desire to be sad. Mania of always thinking about yesterday. Ghosts of the past that return and insist when in the afternoons I drink my cup of coffee.

Danced to it

Music from 1943–1944 · danced on film 2011–2024

20112024
By the year it was danced; each dance counts once, however many channels filmed it

2011: 1, 2018: 1, 2023: 1, 2024: 1

Data: recordings, facts and sources

Recordings by year

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

19431944

1943: 1, 1944: 1

Composer1

Composed by Alfredo Malerba

Supported · 2

In other catalogues2

TodoTango · tema/281

Single source

tango.info · Z0000064696

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Is a1

Is a Tango

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Published1

Published 1943

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Lyricist1

Lyrics by Homero Manzi

Single source

Listen

  1. Mi taza de caféRicardo Malerba · Orlando Medina1943
  2. Mi taza de caféAlberto Carol · no clip yet1944

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