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Milonga de los fortines

Music by Sebastián Piana, lyrics by Homero Manzi. 1 recordings in our catalogue, 1937–1937.

Versions of Milonga de los fortines recorded 1937

Milonga de los fortines was composed by Sebastián Piana.†† The lyrics of Milonga de los fortines are by Homero Manzi.†

The song

The piece as people name it, whoever plays it.

1 orchestra recorded it

106 Dances filmed to it

Who wrote it

Music
Sebastián Piana
Words
Homero Manzi
Written
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Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Lyrics

Español

Milonga de cien reyertas templada como el valor. Grito de pampa desierta diciendo su alerta con voz de cantor. Milonga de quita penas. Nostalgia de población. Canto qu'en noche serena su rezo despena detrás del fogón. Diana de viejas victorias en la punta del tropel, con tu vanguardia de gloria serás en la historia canción y laurel. Son de querencia querida en las noches del cuartel. Pena de china querida que al fin afligida dejó de ser fiel. Resuenan con tus acentos, milonga del batallón, gritos de viejos sargentos cargando en el viento con el escuadrón. Y vuelven en los sonidos agudos del cornetín, ecos de mil alaridos que estaban perdidos detrás del confín. Gime el desierto rodando sus rumores de huracán... Vienen las lanzas cargando y están aguaitando la Cruz y el Puñal. Gloria de aquel comandante que jamás volvió al cantón. Besan su barba cervuna la luz de la luna y el fuego del sol.

English · machine translation

Milonga of a hundred fights tempered as courage. Cry of deserted pampas saying its alert with the voice of a singer. Milonga of the removal of sorrows. Nostalgia of population. Song that in serene night its prayer behind the hearth. Diana of old victories at the top of the troop, with your vanguard of glory you will be in history song and laurel. You will be a beloved sound of love in the nights of the barracks. Sorrow of the beloved Chinese who at the end afflicted ceased to be faithful. They resonate with your accents, milonga of the battalion, cries of old sergeants charging in the wind with the squadron. And they return in the high-pitched of the bugle, echoes of a thousand shrieks that were lost behind the border. The desert moans rolling its hurricane rumors... The spears come charging and they are watering the Cross and the Dagger. Glory of that commander who never returned to the canton. They kiss his fawn beard the light of the moon and the fire of the sun.

Every version

Computed from the catalogue, not yet written by anyone

The catalogue holds 1 recordings of this song by 1 orchestras, 1937 to 1937.

1 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 4 more we know of

a version people dance tono Dances matched yet: something to listen to

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  1. Típica VictorEarliest we holdMost dancedMilonga de los fortinesTípica VictorMariano BalcarcemilongaRCA Victor
    106 dances
    1937
  2. José CanetNot in our catalogueNelly Omar1981
  3. Agustín IrustaNot in our catalogue
  4. Nelly OmarNot in our catalogue
  5. José CanetNot in our catalogueNelly Omar

One recording

A dated take, with its sound and the couples dancing it.

Típica Victor

Milonga de los fortinesTípica VictorMariano BalcarcemilongaRCA Victor

Couples filmed dancing this recording · 107 Performances

Danced to it

Music from 1937 · danced on film 2008–2025

20082025
By the year it was danced; each dance counts once, however many channels filmed it

2008: 3, 2009: 4, 2010: 7, 2011: 3, 2012: 6, 2013: 2, 2014: 2, 2015: 5, 2016: 4, 2017: 9, 2018: 4, 2019: 5, 2021: 2, 2023: 8, 2024: 2, 2025: 4

Where it is danced

The places our videos show it danced, by performances filmed there.

  1. Salón El Pial (La Baldosa)Flores
    3 performances
  2. Salón CanningPalermo
    2 performances
  3. El Zorzal CulturalBalvanera
    1 performance
  4. MarabúSan Nicolás
    1 performance
  5. Sunderland ClubVilla Urquiza
    1 performance

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What we don't know yet3 of 4 known

The year it was written.

Data: recordings, facts and sources

Composer1

Composed by Sebastián Piana

In other catalogues2

tango.info · T0370018953

TodoTango · tema/251

Lyricist1

Lyrics by Homero Manzi

Listen

  1. Milonga de los fortinesTípica VictorMariano BalcarcemilongaRCA Victor

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