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Cuánta angustia

Music by Julián Plaza. 3 recordings in our catalogue, 1957–1957.

Cuánta angustia is a tango.

Cuánta angustia was composed by Julian Plaza.

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Credit

Music
Julián Plaza

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Every recording

3 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube

  1. Miguel CalóEarliest we holdRoberto Arrieta · Odeon · Jun 181957
  2. Alfredo GobbiTito Lando · Sep 2519571 dance
  3. Carlos Di SarliMost dancedRoberto Florio · RCA Victor · Sep 3019578 dances

Lyrics

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Cuántas veces por vos, he llegado a mentir en el nombre de Dios. ¿No me viste callar, con un gesto feroz, por temor a gritar? No te quedes un minuto más, que mi vida ya no tiene paz. Pero al verte partir, con horror te abracé por temor a morir. ¡Cuánta angustia! ¡Cuánta pena! Todo duele, todo quema... Y quema más y más y duele más la nieve de tu carne de azucena. ¡Cuánta angustia! ¡Cuánto espanto! Es vivir, queriendo tanto. Cuando la vida, nos deja entre los brazos un mísero retazo, de compasión. En mis horas sin Dios, las rodillas doblé, y recé por los dos. Fui pequeño, lo sé, como un alma sin luz que no sueña ni ve. ¡He jugado corazón! Perdí, y la vida se negó total. Hoy que debo pagar ni me pongo a correr, ni me inclino a rezar.

English · machine translation

How many times for you, I have come to lie in the name of God. Didn't you see me shut up, with a fierce gesture, for fear of shouting? Don't stay a minute longer, for my life has no more peace. But as I watched you go with horror I embraced you for fear of dying. How much anguish! How much sorrow! Everything hurts, everything burns.... And it burns more and more and hurts more and more the snow of your lily flesh. How much anguish! How much fear! It is to live, loving so much. When life leaves us in its arms a miserable scrap of compassion, of compassion. In my hours without God I bent my knees, and prayed for both of us. I was small, I know, like a soul without light that neither dreams nor sees. I played my heart out! I lost, and life refused total. Today that I must pay nor do I run, nor bow down to pray.

Danced to it

Music from 1957 · danced on film 2013–2023

20132023
By the year it was danced; each dance counts once, however many channels filmed it

2013: 1, 2014: 1, 2016: 1, 2018: 1, 2019: 4, 2022: 1, 2023: 1

What we don't know yet3 of 4 known

The year it was written.

Data: recordings, facts and sources

Recordings by year

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

19571957

1957: 3

In other catalogues2

TodoTango · tema/3133

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tango.info · T0370404140

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Is a1

Is a Tango

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Composer1

Composed by Julian Plaza

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Listen

  1. Cuánta angustiaMiguel Caló · Roberto Arrieta1957
  2. Cuánta angustiaAlfredo Gobbi · Tito Landó1957
  3. Cuánta angustiaCarlos Di Sarli · Roberto Florio1957

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