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Un tango para mi vieja

Music by Enrique Alessio, lyrics by Reinaldo Yiso. 1 recordings in our catalogue, 1950–1950.

Un tango para mi vieja was composed by Enrique Alessio.

Un tango para mi vieja is a tango.

Un tango para mi vieja was published in 1950.

The lyrics of Un tango para mi vieja are by Reinaldo Yiso.

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Credit

Music
Enrique Alessio
Lyrics
Reinaldo Yiso

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Every recording

1 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube

  1. Juan D'ArienzoEarliest we holdMost dancedAlberto Echagüe · RCA Victor · Sep 28195031 dances

Lyrics

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Un mate y un beso, así me despierta, me da su buen día con voz celestial. Después me acompaña, mimosa, a la puerta sonríen sus ojos mientras dice chau. Sus labios no saben jamás de reproches yo estoy, para ella, siempre en la niñez todo me perdona, hasta aquella noche que por ciertas cosas, yo me emborraché. Viejecita de mi vida, tu querer es dulce nido, allí no hay pena ni olvido todo es, ternura y amor. Si Dios me dejó, por suerte, tu querer es como un sol que nunca tu corazón quiera apagarlo la muerte. Este tango, vieja mía, este tango es para vos. Un mate y un beso recibo a la vuelta, prepara la cena con una canción. La ropa limpita sobre mi , cepillado el saco luciendo una flor. Por noble y por buena, por santa y divina, la llevo metida en el corazón. Mi vieja, muchachos, y todas las viejas, son todas iguales... ¡un cacho de Dios!

English · machine translation

A maté and a kiss, that's how she wakes me, she gives me her good morning with a heavenly voice. Then she goes with me, tenderly, to the door her eyes smile while she says goodbye. Her lips never know reproaches I am, for her, always in childhood she forgives me everything, even that night when over certain things, I got drunk. Dear old woman of my life, your loving is a sweet nest, there's no sorrow or forgetting there everything is tenderness and love. If God left me, by good fortune, your loving is like a sun may death never want to put your heart out. This tango, my old mother, this tango is for you. A maté and a kiss I get on coming back, she makes the supper with a song. My clean clothes on my cot, my jacket brushed and showing a flower. For being noble and good, for being holy and divine, I carry her tucked inside my heart. My old mother, lads, and all the old mothers, they're all the same... a piece of God!

Danced to it

Music from 1950 · danced on film 2009–2019

20092019
By the year it was danced; each dance counts once, however many channels filmed it

2009: 1, 2011: 2, 2012: 1, 2015: 2, 2017: 1, 2018: 4, 2019: 1

Anton Volkov2012 · 3:10
Data: recordings, facts and sources

Recordings by year

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

19501950

1950: 1

Composer1

Composed by Enrique Alessio

Supported · 2

In other catalogues3

TodoTango · tema/2516

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tango.info · T0370261849

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MusicBrainz · a9309841-b7c6-4d6b-af63-a7a4538f4790source

Single source

Is a1

Is a Tango

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Published1

Published 1950

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Lyricist1

Lyrics by Reinaldo Yiso

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Listen

  1. Un tango para mi viejaJuan D'Arienzo · Alberto Echagüe1950

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