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Se fue la pobre viejita · Edgardo Donato · 1932

Edgardo DonatotangoBrunswick
Music by Agustín Magaldi, Pedro Noda, lyrics by Enrique Cadícamo. 1 recordings in our catalogue, 1932–1932.

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Earliest we hold: Edgardo Donato, 1932

  1. Edgardo Donato1932

Pinned at 1932 · Guardia Nueva 1920–1934 · Edgardo Donato recordings indexed 1930–1961

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Music
Agustín Magaldi, Pedro Noda
Words
Enrique Cadícamo
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de ojos grandes, reina del jarangón, te fuiste de aquel barrio, pa' nunca más volver. Y tiraste a la marchanta tu joven corazón y envileciste toda tu almita de mujer. Charquito de agua turbia, mientras en el salón, trenzabas con tus cortes un tango muy sensual. La muerte con sus pasos, entró en la habitacion de la que tanto llanto secó en su delantal. ¡Se fue la pobre viejita! Sin un abrazo, sin un dulce adiós, con su miseria la santa, se fue de un vuelo, pa’ estar cerca ‘e Dios. ¡Se fue la pobre viejita! Con su trajedia en el corazón, sin darte un beso de madre, beso sagrado, lleno de perdón. Que mala estrella, hermana, tuvimos al nacer, se fue barranca abajo la vida de los dos. Yo me hice delincuente, tu cuerpo de mujer pasó de mano en mano y hoy un escombro sos. Yo que en la mala vida me consagré ladrón, sabiendo de la pobre viejita el triste fin, tire mi alma de , ganzúa y palanquín, y ahogándome de pena, lloré sobre el cajón.

English · machine translation

Hey, big-eyed girl, queen of the dance hall, you left that neighborhood, never to come back. And you threw your young heart out to the crowd and cheapened that whole little woman's soul of yours. A puddle of muddy water, while in the ballroom, you braided a very sensual tango with your steps. Death with its footfalls came into the room of the woman who dried so much weeping on her apron. The poor old woman is gone! Without an embrace, without a sweet goodbye, with her poverty, the saint, she went off in one flight, to be near God. The poor old woman is gone! With her tragedy in her heart, without giving you a mother's kiss, that sacred kiss, full of forgiveness. What a bad star, sister, we were born under, both our lives went tumbling down the bank. I turned criminal, and that woman's body of yours passed from hand to hand and today you're a ruin. I, who in the bad life made myself a thief, knowing the sorry end of the poor old woman, threw away my crook's soul, my picklock and my jimmy, and choking with grief, I wept over the coffin.

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The catalogue holds 1 recordings of this song by 1 orchestras, 1932 to 1932.

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    1932

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Se fue la pobre viejitaEdgardo DonatotangoBrunswick

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