Song
Te llaman Malevo
Who recorded it
Every version3Earliest we hold: Aníbal Troilo, 1957
Versions of Te llaman Malevo recorded 1957–2001
Te llaman Malevo was composed by Aníbal Troilo.†† The lyrics of Te llaman Malevo are by Homero Expósito.†
The song
The piece as people name it, whoever plays it.
2 orchestras recorded it
17 Dances filmed to it
Who wrote it
- Music
- Aníbal Troilo
- Words
- Homero Expósito
- Written
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- First played
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Source: TangoCloud catalogue
Lyrics
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Nació en un barrio con malvón y luna por donde el hambre suele hacer gambetas y desde fue poniendo el hombro y anchó a trabajo su sonrisa buena. La sal del tiempo le oxidó la cara cuando una mina lo dejó en chancleta y entonces solo, para siempre solo, largó el y se metió en la huella. Malevo, te olvidaste en los boliches los anhelos de tu vieja. Malevo, se agrandaron tus hazañas con las copas de ginebra. Por ella, tan sólo por ella, dejaste una huella de amargo rencor. Malevo, ¡qué triste! jugaste y perdiste tan sólo por ella que nunca volvió. Tambor de tacos redoblando calles para que se entren las muchachas buenas y allí el silencio que mastica el pucho dejando siempre la mirada a cuenta. Dicen que dicen que una noche zurda con el cuchillo deshojó la espera y entonces solo, como flor de orilla, largó el cansancio y se mató por ella.
English · machine translation
He was born in a neighborhood with mallow and moon where hunger usually wanders and since he was a child he put his shoulder to work and widened his good smile to work. The salt of time oxidized his face when a girl left him in his flip-flops and then alone, forever alone, he left his job and got into the track. Malevo, you forgot in the nightclubs the yearnings of your old lady. Malevo, your exploits were enlarged with the glasses of gin. For her, just for her, you left a trace of bitter resentment. Malevo, how sad! you played and lost just for her who never came back. Drum of tacos redoubling the streets for the good girls to enter and there the silence that chews on the cigarette always leaving the look on account. They say that they say that one night left-handed with the knife he stripped the wait and then alone, like a flower on the shore, he released his tiredness and killed himself for her.
Every version
Computed from the catalogue, not yet written by anyone
3 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 3 more we know of
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- Orquesta Típica Fernández FierroTe llaman MalevoOrquesta Típica Fernández FierroEl Chino LabordetangoNo match yet2001
- Alberto Di PauloNot in our catalogueNelly Omar1983
- Jorge SobralNot in our catalogue
- -unspecified orchestra-Not in our catalogue
One recording
A dated take, with its sound and the couples dancing it.
Couples filmed dancing this recording · 11 Performances
Danced to it
Music from 1957–2001 · danced on film 2011–2018
2011: 1, 2012: 1, 2013: 1, 2016: 2, 2017: 1, 2018: 1
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- EntryAníbal TroiloPerson
- EntryHomero ExpósitoPerson
- EntryLa tramperaComposition
- EntryResponsoComposition
- EntryA HomeroComposition
- EntryDesencuentroComposition
- EntryPatio míoComposition
- EntryChe bandoneónComposition
What we don't know yet3 of 4 known
The year it was written.
Data: recordings, facts and sources
Composer1
Composed by Aníbal Troilo
In other catalogues3
tango.info · T0370420884
TodoTango · tema/128
MusicBrainz · 8319d99c-1d0a-459b-8ada-36bd3dcea1c5source
Lyricist1
Lyrics by Homero Expósito
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