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De punta a punta

Music by Osvaldo Donato. 2 recordings in our catalogue, 1939–1972.
1939: 1 · danced 27 times1972: 1 · danced 0 times
1939’50’60’701972
records madedanced on film, by the record’s year· our catalogue

1939: 1, 27; 1972: 1, 0

De punta a punta was composed by Osvaldo Donato.††

Credit

Music
Osvaldo Donato

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Every recording

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

1930’40’50’60’70

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

  1. Edgardo DonatoEarliest we holdMost dancedHoracio Lagos · RCA Victor · Mar 6
    27 dances
    1939
  2. Miguel VillasboasInstrumental · Dec 18
    Not danced on film yet
    1972
  3. Miguel VillasboasNot in our catalogueInstrumental1997

Lyrics

Español

De punta a punta sigo mi tren. Y no le temo a nadie porque he sido siempre guapa y seré derecha y sin más trampa que ser del arrabal porteño, el corte y la quebrada a mí la muchachada de ayer me disputó. Yo sé, yo sé que no hay razón que hoy aflojé así nomás, si sé que el mundo me ha admirado hoy, más que nunca, seré para ese mi arrabal. Ya ven que me hago respetar y voy donde los otros van. Ya ven, ya ven que a mí me sobran clase y figura, de ayer pa’ que le voy aflojar. Tengo rivales bravos que yo los miro sobre el hombro si sé que no me han hecho sombra porque les gano desde el vamos. Y así de punta a punta sigo cantando a mi manera tengo alma callejera y estoy donde otro está.

English · machine translation

From end to end I follow my train. And I'm not afraid of anyone because I have always been beautiful and I will be straight and with no other trap than being from the suburbs of Buenos Aires, the cut and the ravine to me the muchachada of yesterday disputed me. I know, I know that there is no reason that today I just let up just like that, if I know that the world has admired me today, more than ever, I will be for that my suburb. You can see that I make myself respected and I go where the others go. You see, you see that I have plenty of class and figure, from yesterday for what I'm going to loosen. I have fierce rivals that I I look over my shoulder if I know that they have not overshadowed me because because I beat them from the start. And so from one end to the other singing in my own way I have a street soul and I am where someone else is.

Danced to it

Music from 1939–1972 · danced on film 2009–2025

20092025
By the year it was danced; each dance counts once, however many channels filmed it

2009: 2, 2010: 1, 2011: 1, 2013: 3, 2015: 1, 2016: 1, 2017: 4, 2018: 2, 2019: 2, 2023: 1, 2024: 1, 2025: 1

Where it is danced

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

  1. Club Social y Deportivo Villa MalcolmVilla Crespo
    1 performance
  2. El BesoBalvanera
    1 performance
  3. Sunderland ClubVilla Urquiza
    1 performance

What we don't know yet3 of 4 known

The year it was written.

Data: recordings, facts and sources

Composer1

Composed by Osvaldo Donato

Supported · 2

In other catalogues2

tango.info · T0370009861

Single source

TodoTango · tema/6329

Single source

Listen

  1. De punta a puntaEdgardo Donato · Horacio Lagos1939
  2. De punta a puntaMiguel Villasboas · no clip yet1972

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