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Antiguo reloj de cobre

Music by Eduardo Marvezzi. 2 recordings in our catalogue, 1955–2018.

Versions of Antiguo reloj de cobre recorded 1955–2018

Antiguo reloj de cobre was composed by Eduardo Marvezzi.††

The song

The piece as people name it, whoever plays it.

2 orchestras recorded it

58 Dances filmed to it

Who wrote it

Music
Eduardo Marvezzi
Words
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Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Lyrics

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Antiguo reloj de cobre que vas marcando el tiempo los pasajes de mi vida que me llenan de emoción. Fuiste orgullo de mi viejo, te lucía en su cadena como un puente levadizo delante del corazón. Cuantas veces calmó el llanto de consentido , mi madre como un juguete, decía prestárselo... y mientras él murmuraba, mi vieja se sonreía, y contento me dormía jugando con el reloj. Hoy ya pasaron los años, se me fue blanqueando el pelo, el rebenque de la vida me ha golpeado sin cesar. Y en el banco prestamista he llegado a formar fila esperando que en la lista me llamaran a cobrar. 'Perdóname, viejo, si de vos me olvido, sé que lo has querido tanto como yo. Sé que desde el cielo me estás campaneando, y que estás llorando como lloro yo.' Cuatro pesos sucios por esa reliquia, venganza del mundo taimado y traidor. Me mordí fuerte las manos, el dinero me quemaba y mientras que blasfemaba a la calle enderecé; y a la imagen de mi madre vi que me compadecía y llorando me decía: 'El viejo te perdonó'.

English · machine translation

Antique copper clock that you are marking the time the passages of my life that fill me with emotion. You were my old man's pride, you were on his chain like a drawbridge in front of my heart. How many times he calmed the cry of spoiled little purr, my mother like a toy, she said she would lend him... and while he murmured, my old lady smiled, and contentedly I fell asleep playing with the watch. Today the years have passed, my hair has whitened, the whitening of life has beaten me ceaselessly. And at the lending bank I have come to line up waiting for the list I would be called to collect. Forgive me, old man, if I forget you, I know you loved him as much as I do. I know that from heaven you're ringing my bell, and that you are crying as I weep. Four dirty pesos for that relic, revenge of the world sneaky and treacherous. I bit my hands hard, the money burned me and while I blasphemed to the street I straightened up; and to the image of my mother I saw that she pitied me and crying she said to me: 'The old man forgave you'.

Every version

Computed from the catalogue, not yet written by anyone

The catalogue holds 2 recordings of this song by 2 orchestras, 1955 to 2018.
1950’60’70’80’90’00’10
Recordings of Antiguo reloj de cobre by year, taller the more they are danced · 2 of 2 recordings carry a year · read Nov 1, 2026

2 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 2 more we know of

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

The leader is Osvaldo Pugliese, 1955, with 100% of the 58 filmed dances matched to a version of this song.

“No match yet” means no filmed dance is tied to that version so far, not that nobody dances it. Dances whose music we have not identified are left out.

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

  1. Osvaldo PuglieseEarliest we holdMost dancedAntiguo reloj de cobreOsvaldo PuglieseMiguel MonterotangoOdeon
    58 dances · 100%
    1955
  2. Tango BardoAntiguo reloj de cobreTango BardoOsvaldo Peredotango
    No match yet
    2018
  3. José LibertellaNot in our catalogueMiguel Montero · Apr 191960
  4. Héctor VarelaNot in our catalogueRodolfo Lesica

One recording

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

Osvaldo Pugliese

Antiguo reloj de cobreOsvaldo PuglieseMiguel MonterotangoOdeon

Couples filmed dancing this recording · 57 Performances

Danced to it

Music from 1955–2018 · danced on film 2009–2026

20092026
By the year it was danced; each dance counts once, however many channels filmed it

2009: 2, 2011: 1, 2012: 5, 2013: 2, 2014: 3, 2015: 4, 2017: 6, 2018: 3, 2019: 4, 2020: 1, 2021: 1, 2022: 3, 2024: 2, 2025: 2, 2026: 2

Where it is danced

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

  1. Club Sin RumboVilla Urquiza
    1 performance
  2. Espacio Riobamba (Club Castel)Balvanera
    1 performance
  3. MarabúSan Nicolás
    1 performance
  4. Salón CanningPalermo
    1 performance
  5. Salón La NacionalMonserrat
    1 performance
  6. Sunderland ClubVilla Urquiza
    1 performance

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What we don't know yet3 of 4 known

The year it was written.

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