The Cabeceo

Skip to content

Song

Sonatina

Music by Marcelino Hernández, lyrics by ABEL AZNAR. 1 recordings in our catalogue, 1956–1956.

Sonatina was composed by Marcelino Hernández and ABEL AZNAR.†† The lyrics of Sonatina are by ABEL AZNAR and Marcelino Hernández.†

Credit

Music
Marcelino Hernández
Lyrics
ABEL AZNAR

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Every recording

1 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube

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

  1. Carlos Di SarliEarliest we holdMost dancedJorge Durán · RCA Victor · Oct 19
    33 dances
    1956

Lyrics

Español

Las copas ya vacías sobre el frío mostrador, en cada copa un sueño, una lágrima, un rencor. Y siguen la rutinas, la vieja sonatina, llorando en la neblina del humo y del licor. La turbia indiferencia del que va para olvidar, la otra indiferencia del que toma por tomar. Reniega de tu pena, gastada pero ajena y al fin te quedas solo, como una copa más. Con tu violín descolorido y con tu alma de arlequín, seguís andando sin olvido, de cafetín en cafetín. Tu vieja y triste sonatina, parece, en cada bodegón, una esperanza que camina bajo un cielo de neblina arrastrando un corazón. Y sigues noche a noche, desnudando tu violín y vas de mesa en mesa con tu alma de arlequín. Tu alma empecinada que nunca encuentra nada, buscando en las cantinas y en cada cafetín. Buscando una sonrisa, una lágrima nomás, buscando quien comprenda la amargura que hay detrás, de cada madrugada cuando solo te quedas mirando las monedas que no te llevarás.

English · machine translation

The glasses already empty on the cold counter, in each glass a dream, a tear, a grudge. And the routines go on, the old sonatina, crying in the haze of smoke and liquor. The murky indifference of the one who goes to forget, the other indifference of the one who takes for the sake of taking. Deny your sorrow, worn but alien and at last you are left alone like one more glass. With your faded violin and with your harlequin soul, you keep on walking without forgetting, from cafe to cafe. Your sad old sonatina seems, in each still life, a hope that walks under a sky of mist dragging a heart. And you go on night after night stripping your violin and you go from table to table with your harlequin soul. Your stubborn soul that never finds anything, searching in the canteens and in every cafe. Looking for a smile, just a tear, looking for someone who understands the bitterness that lies behind of every early morning when you just stand looking at the coins that you will not take with you.

Danced to it

Music from 1956 · danced on film 2013–2026

20132026
By the year it was danced; each dance counts once, however many channels filmed it

2013: 1, 2014: 2, 2015: 1, 2017: 1, 2018: 5, 2019: 1, 2022: 2, 2023: 1, 2024: 3, 2026: 2

What we don't know yet3 of 4 known

The year it was written.

Data: recordings, facts and sources

Composer2

Composed by Marcelino Hernández

Sources disagree · 2

Composed by ABEL AZNAR

Sources disagree

In other catalogues2

tango.info · T0370386109

Single source

TodoTango · tema/916

Single source

Lyricist2

Lyrics by ABEL AZNAR

Single source

Lyrics by Marcelino Hernández

Single source

Listen

  1. SonatinaCarlos Di Sarli · Jorge Durán1956

Ask Tangopedia

Answers only from cited facts, each with its source.