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Cafetín de Buenos Aires

Music by Mariano Mores, lyrics by Mariano Mores. 8 recordings in our catalogue, 1948–1977.

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 · 19 more we know of

1940’50’60’70

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

  1. Aníbal TroiloEarliest we holdEdmundo Rivero · RCA Victor · Jul 8
    1 dance
    1948
  2. Miguel CalóAlberto Marino · Odeon · May 15
    Not danced on film yet
    1967
  3. Osvaldo FresedoOsvaldo Cordo · RCA Victor · Jul 20
    Not danced on film yet
    1948
  4. José BassoHéctor de Rosas · Music Hall
    Not danced on film yet
    1964
  5. Roberto GoyenecheMost dancedInstrumental · Mar 14
    6 dances
    1968
  6. Mariano MoresInstrumental
    Not danced on film yet
    1953
  7. Mariano MoresEnrique Lucero · Jan 21
    Not danced on film yet
    1957
  8. Mariano MoresNito Mores
    Not danced on film yet
    1977
  9. Hugo Di CarloNot in our cataloguePablo Moreno1948
  10. Héctor StamponiNot in our catalogueTania · Jul 11948
  11. Astor PiazzollaNot in our catalogueAlberto Fontán Luna · Nov 251948
  12. Osvaldo CordóNot in our catalogueOsvaldo Cordó1959
  13. Ángel DomínguezNot in our catalogueNelly Omar1967
  14. Raúl Miguel GarelloNot in our catalogueRoberto Goyeneche1968
  15. Hugo DíazNot in our catalogueInstrumental1973
  16. Rubén JuárezNot in our catalogue
  17. Hugo del CarrilNot in our catalogue
  18. Susana RinaldiNot in our catalogue
  19. Virginia LuqueNot in our catalogue
  20. Alberto Di PauloNot in our catalogueInstrumental

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

20192025
By the year it was danced; each dance counts once, however many channels filmed it

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

Composer2

Composed by Mariano Mores

Sources disagree · 2

Composed by Enrique Santos Discepolo

Sources disagree

In other catalogues4

tango.info · T0370025345

Single source

TodoTango · tema/152

Single source

MusicBrainz · 78525a77-59d0-3527-aa0d-e2676e63c1f6source

Single source

ISWC · T-037.002.534-5source

Single source

Lyricist2

Lyrics by Mariano Mores

Single source

Lyrics by Enrique Santos Discepolo

Single source

Listen

  1. Cafetín de Buenos AiresAníbal Troilo · Edmundo Rivero1948
  2. Cafetín de Buenos AiresOsvaldo Fresedo · Osvaldo Cordo1948
  3. Cafetín de Buenos AiresMariano Mores · Mariano Mores · no clip yet1953
  4. Cafetín de Buenos AiresMariano Mores · Enrique Lucero · no clip yet1957
  5. Cafetín de Buenos AiresJosé Basso · Héctor de Rosas · no clip yet1964
  6. Cafetín de Buenos AiresMiguel Caló · Alberto Marino1967
  7. Cafetín de Buenos AiresRoberto Goyeneche · Roberto Goyeneche1968
  8. Cafetín de Buenos AiresMariano Mores · Nito Mores · no clip yet1977

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