Song
Cafetín de Buenos Aires
Cafetín de Buenos Aires was composed by Mariano Mores and Enrique Santos Discepolo.†† The lyrics of Cafetín de Buenos Aires are by Mariano Mores and Enrique Santos Discepolo.†
Credit
- Music
- Mariano Mores
- Lyrics
- Mariano Mores
Source: TangoCloud catalogue
Every recording
8 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube
- Aníbal TroiloEarliest we holdEdmundo Rivero · RCA Victor · Jul 819481 dance
- Osvaldo FresedoOsvaldo Cordo · RCA Victor · Jul 201948
- Mariano MoresInstrumental1953
- Mariano MoresEnrique Lucero · Jan 211957
- José BassoHéctor de Rosas · Music Hall1964
- Miguel CalóAlberto Marino · Odeon · May 151967
- Roberto GoyenecheMost dancedInstrumental · Mar 1419686 dances
- Mariano MoresNito Mores1977
Lyrics
Español
De chiquilín te miraba de afuera como a esas cosas que nunca se alcanzan... La ñata contra el vidrio, en un azul de frío, que sólo fue después viviendo igual al mío... Como una escuela de todas las cosas, ya de muchacho me diste entre asombros: el cigarrillo, la fe en mis sueños y una esperanza de amor. Cómo olvidarte en esta queja, cafetín de Buenos Aires, si sos lo único en la vida que se pareció a mi vieja... En tu mezcla milagrosa de sabihondos y suicidas, yo aprendí filosofía... dados... timba... y la poesía cruel de no pensar más en mí. Me diste en oro un puñado de amigos, que son los mismos que alientan mis horas: (José, el de la quimera... Marcial, que aún cree y espera... y el flaco Abel que se nos fue pero aún me guía....). Sobre tus mesas que nunca preguntan lloré una tarde el primer desengaño, nací a las penas, bebí mis años y me entregué sin luchar.
English · machine translation
When I was a little boy I looked at you from the outside like those things that you never reach... The leg against the glass, in a cold blue, that was only later living the same as mine... Like a school of all things, already as a boy you gave me among astonishments: the cigarette, faith in my dreams and a hope of love. How to forget you in this complaint, coffee shop of Buenos Aires, if you are the only thing in life that resembled my old lady... In your miraculous mixture of know-it-alls and suicides, I learned philosophy... dice... timba... and the cruel poetry of not thinking about me anymore. You gave me, in gold, a handful of friends.., who are the same ones that encourage my hours: (José, the one of the chimera.... Marcial, who still believes and hopes? and the skinny Abel who left us but still guides me ....). On your tables that never ask questions I cried one afternoon the first disappointment, I was born to sorrows, I drank my years and gave myself up without a fight.
Danced to it
Music from 1948–1977 · danced on film 2019–2025
2019: 1, 2020: 1, 2023: 1, 2025: 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
1948: 2, 1953: 1, 1957: 1, 1964: 1, 1967: 1, 1968: 1, 1977: 1
Composer2
Composed by Mariano Mores
Sources disagree · 2Composed by Enrique Santos Discepolo
Sources disagreeIn other catalogues4
tango.info · T0370025345
Single sourceTodoTango · tema/152
Single sourceMusicBrainz · 78525a77-59d0-3527-aa0d-e2676e63c1f6source
Single sourceISWC · T-037.002.534-5source
Single sourceLyricist2
Lyrics by Mariano Mores
Single sourceLyrics by Enrique Santos Discepolo
Single sourceListen
- Cafetín de Buenos AiresAníbal Troilo · Edmundo Rivero1948
- Cafetín de Buenos AiresOsvaldo Fresedo · Osvaldo Cordo1948
- Cafetín de Buenos AiresMariano Mores · Mariano Mores · no clip yet1953
- Cafetín de Buenos AiresMariano Mores · Enrique Lucero · no clip yet1957
- Cafetín de Buenos AiresJosé Basso · Héctor de Rosas · no clip yet1964
- Cafetín de Buenos AiresMiguel Caló · Alberto Marino · no clip yet1967
- Cafetín de Buenos AiresRoberto Goyeneche · Roberto Goyeneche1968
- Cafetín de Buenos AiresMariano Mores · Nito Mores · no clip yet1977
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