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Garúa

Music by Aníbal Troilo, lyrics by Enrique Cadícamo. 6 recordings in our catalogue, 1943–2007.

Garúa was composed by Aníbal Troilo.†† The lyrics of Garúa are by Enrique Cadícamo.† Garúa: Aníbal Troilo records Garúa with Francisco Fiorentino on 4 August 1943 for RCA Victor.† 1943: Aníbal Troilo records Garúa with Francisco Fiorentino on 4 August 1943 for RCA Victor.†

Credit

Music
Aníbal Troilo
Lyrics
Enrique Cadícamo

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Every recording

6 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube

  1. Aníbal TroiloEarliest we holdMost dancedFrancisco Fiorentino · RCA Victor · Aug 4194351 dances
  2. Pedro LaurenzAlberto Podestá · Odeon · Aug 6194315 dances
  3. Rafael Canaro Y Su Orquesta ArgentinaJorge Cardozo1945
  4. Aníbal TroiloRoberto Goyeneche · RCA Victor · Jan 919623 dances
  5. Astor PiazzollaRoberto Goyeneche · May 3019823 dances
  6. Orquesta Típica ImperialInstrumental2007

Lyrics

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¡Qué noche llena de hastío y de frío! El viento trae un extraño lamento. ¡Parece un pozo de sombras la noche y yo en la sombra camino muy lento.! Mientras tanto la garúa se acentúa con sus púas en mi corazón... En esta noche tan fría y tan mía pensando siempre en lo mismo me abismo y aunque quiera arrancarla, desecharla y olvidarla la recuerdo más. ¡Garúa! Solo y triste por la acera va este corazón transido con tristeza de tapera. Sintiendo tu hielo, porque aquella, con su olvido, hoy le ha abierto una gotera. ¡Perdido! Como un duende que en la sombra más la busca y más la nombra... Garúa... tristeza... ¡Hasta el cielo se ha puesto a llorar! ¡Qué noche llena de hastío y de frío! No se ve a nadie cruzar por la esquina. Sobre la calle, la hilera de focos lustra el asfalto con luz mortecina. Y yo voy, como un descarte, siempre solo, siempre aparte, recordándote. Las gotas caen en el charco de mi alma hasta los huesos calados y helados y humillando este tormento todavía pasa el viento empujándome.

English · machine translation

What a night full of boredom and cold! The wind brings a strange lament. The night seems like a well of shadows and I walk very slowly in the shadows! Meanwhile the drizzle is accentuated with its barbs in my heart... In this night so cold and so mine always thinking about the same thing, I am abyssed and even if I want to tear it out throw it away and forget it I remember her more. Garúa! Alone and sad on the sidewalk goes this transient heart with the sadness of a tapera. Feeling your ice because that one, with her forgetfulness, today has opened a leak. Lost! Like a goblin who in the shadows the more he searches for her and the more he names her... Garúa... sadness... Even the sky has begun to cry! What a night full of boredom and cold! No one is seen crossing the corner. Above the street, the row of spotlights shines on the asphalt with dim light. And I go, like a discard, always alone, always apart, remembering you. The drops fall in the puddle of my soul to my bones soaked and frozen and humiliating this torment the wind still passes pushing me.

Danced to it

Music from 1943–2007 · danced on film 1982–2026

19822026
By the year it was danced; each dance counts once, however many channels filmed it

1982: 1, 2010: 1, 2011: 5, 2012: 4, 2013: 11, 2014: 4, 2015: 4, 2016: 6, 2017: 1, 2018: 1, 2019: 3, 2020: 2, 2021: 1, 2022: 6, 2023: 3, 2024: 7, 2025: 4, 2026: 3

What we don't know yet3 of 4 known

The year it was written.

Data: recordings, facts and sources

Recordings by year

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

19432007

1943: 2, 1945: 1, 1962: 1, 1982: 1, 2007: 1

Composer1

Composed by Aníbal Troilo

Supported · 2

In other catalogues4

tango.info · T0370204106

Single source

TodoTango · tema/35

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MusicBrainz · 2c70292e-081e-46d4-8ca2-f2c60127a060source

Single source

ISWC · T-037.020.410-6source

Single source

Lyricist1

Lyrics by Enrique Cadícamo

Single source

Known for1

Francisco Florentino — is known for Garúa

Single source

Notes1

Aníbal Troilo records Garúa with Francisco Fiorentino on 4 August 1943 for RCA Victor.Aug 4, 1943

Single source

Listen

  1. GarúaAníbal Troilo · Francisco Fiorentino1943
  2. GarúaPedro Laurenz · Alberto Podestá1943
  3. GarúaJorge Cardozo · no clip yet1945
  4. GarúaAníbal Troilo · Roberto Goyeneche1962
  5. GarúaAstor Piazzolla · Roberto Goyeneche1982
  6. GarúaOrquesta Típica Imperial · no clip yet2007

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