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Araca la cana

Music by Enrique Delfino. 3 recordings in our catalogue, 1933–1979.
1933: 2 · danced 53 times1979: 1 · danced 0 times
1933’40’50’60’701979
records madedanced on film, by the record’s year· our catalogue

1933: 2, 53; 1979: 1, 0

Araca la cana is a tango.

Araca la cana was published in 1933.

Araca la cana was composed by Enrique Delfino.

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Credit

Music
Enrique Delfino

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Every recording

3 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 3 more we know of

1930’40’50’60’70

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

  1. Osvaldo FresedoEarliest we holdMost dancedRoberto Ray · RCA Victor · Jun 6
    53 dances
    1933
  2. Francisco CanaroErnesto Famá · Odeon · Jun 16
    Not danced on film yet
    1933
  3. Armando PontierRoberto Goyeneche · Jun 7
    Not danced on film yet
    1979
  4. Aníbal TroiloNot in our catalogue1932
  5. Ángel Domingo Riverol, Domingo Julio Vivas, Guillermo Barbieri, Horacio PettorossiNot in our catalogueCarlos Gardel · Jun 121933
  6. Víctor BuchinoNot in our catalogueEdmundo Rivero

Lyrics

Español · Underlined words are lunfardo: tap one for its meaning.

¡Araca la cana! Ya estoy engriyao... Un par de ojos negros me han engayolao. Ojazos profundos, oscuros y bravos, tajantes y fieros hieren al mirar, con brillos de acero que van a matar. De miedo al mirarlos el cuor me ha fayao. ¡Araca la cana! ya estoy engriyao. Yo que anduve entreverao en mil y una ocasión y en todas he guapeao yo que al me he jugao entero el corazón sin asco ni cuidao. Como un vengo a ensartarme en esta daga que va a matarme si es pa' creer que es cosa'e Dios que al guapo más capaz le faye el corazón.

English · machine translation

Get the gray hair! I'm already drunk... A pair of black eyes have made me gummed up. Deep, dark and fierce eyes, sharp and fierce, wounding to look into, with glints of steel that will kill. From fear when I look at them, my heart has fainted. Araca la cana! I'm already engriyao. I who have been in the middle of things on a thousand and one occasions and in all of them I've been a guapeao I who have gambled my whole heart my whole heart without disgust or care. Like a fool I've come to skewer myself in this dagger that's going to kill me if it's to believe that it's God's doing that the most capable handsome to faye his heart.

Danced to it

Music from 1933–1979 · danced on film 2006–2024

20062024
By the year it was danced; each dance counts once, however many channels filmed it

2006: 1, 2007: 1, 2008: 4, 2009: 2, 2010: 8, 2011: 6, 2012: 2, 2013: 2, 2014: 1, 2015: 1, 2016: 2, 2019: 1, 2020: 2, 2023: 3, 2024: 6

Federico Naveira & Ines MuzzopappaWorld Champion · Tango de Salón 20072:19

Through the decades

  1. The 2000sPablo Rodriguez & Noelia HurtadoPlanetango · 2008
  2. The 2010sFederico Naveira & Ines Muzzopappa2010
  3. The 2020sCarlos GavitoGavito Tango Festival · 2023

Where it is danced

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

  1. El Yeite Tango ClubVilla Crespo
    2 performances
  2. La Viruta (Centro Armenio)Palermo
    1 performance
Data: recordings, facts and sources

In other catalogues2

TodoTango · tema/1816

Single source

tango.info · T0370001652

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Is a1

Is a Tango

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Published1

Published 1933

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Composer1

Composed by Enrique Delfino

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Used in lyric1

bardo — used in lyric Araca la cana

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Listen

  1. Araca la canaOsvaldo Fresedo · Roberto Ray1933
  2. Araca la canaFrancisco Canaro · Ernesto Famá · no clip yet1933
  3. Araca la canaArmando Pontier · Roberto Goyeneche · no clip yet1979

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