Song
La mesa de un café
Who recorded it
Every version2Earliest we hold: Ricardo Tanturi, 1946
Versions of La mesa de un café recorded 1946–1950
La mesa de un café is a tango.
La mesa de un café was composed by Raúl Kaplun.
The lyrics of La mesa de un café are by José María Suñé.
The song
The piece as people name it, whoever plays it.
2 orchestras recorded it
8 Dances filmed to it
Who wrote it
- Music
- Raúl Kaplún
- Words
- José María Suñé
- Written
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- First played
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Source: TangoCloud catalogue
Lyrics
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La mesa de un café era el punto de reunión, templábamos los tres en el naipe nuestro humor. Diez años fueron nuestros marchando como amigos, iez años son testigos de muestras de valor. Y fue más de una vez que al llegar a algún salón, soplaron por los tres vientos de provocación. Diez años que nos vieron juntos por la misma huella confiados en la estrella que nos acompañó. Hubo una vez un nombre de mujer nombre fatal danzando entre los tres. Cuando llegó, vio que acechaban su camino tres voces y un cariño, entonces se marchó. Con su visión quedó de aquella vez un resquemor danzando entre los tres. Para olvidar esas cosas del pasado, ansioso voy buscando la mesa de una café. Supimos respetar en diez años nuestra unión, viviendo cada cual su romance de ocasión. Romances de una noche, cariños apurados, romances que acabaron sin pena ni rencor. Lo malo es que los tres nos hicimos la ilusión, de que era la mujer que una vez nos manda Dios. Por ella traicionamos la amistad de tantos años, después nos engañamos y todo se acabó.
English · machine translation
The table of a café was the meeting point, the three of us tempered our moods over cards. Ten years were our years marching as friends, Ten years are witnesses of displays of courage. And it was more than once that on arriving at some salon, they blew for the three winds of provocation. Ten years that saw us together on the same path, confident in the star that accompanied us. confident in the star that accompanied us. There was once a woman's name fatal name dancing among the three. When she arrived, she saw three voices and an affection stalking her way three voices and an affection, then she left. With her vision remained of that time a resentment dancing among the three. To forget those things of the past, I anxiously search for a café table. We knew how to respect our union for ten years, each one of us living our romance of occasion. One-night stands, hurried affections, romances that ended without pain or rancor. The bad thing is that the three of us were under the illusion, that she was the woman God once sent us. For her we betrayed the friendship of so many years, then we deceived each other and it was all over.
Every version
Computed from the catalogue, not yet written by anyone
2 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 1 more we know of
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- Ricardo TanturiEarliest we holdLa mesa de un caféRicardo TanturiRoberto VidelatangoRCA VictorNo match yet1946
- Raúl KaplunMost dancedLa mesa de un caféRaúl KaplunReynaldo Ariastango8 dances1950
- Orquesta Típica PorteñaNot in our catalogueRoberto Goyeneche · May 71970
One recording
A dated take, with its sound and the couples dancing it.
Couples filmed dancing this recording · 2 Performances
Danced to it
Music from 1946–1950 · danced on film 2017
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- EntryRaúl KaplunPerson
- EntryJosé María SuñéPerson
- EntryEn un rincón del caféComposition
- EntryEn un pequeño caféComposition
- EntryEn un café chiquitoComposition
- EntryMuchacho de cafetínComposition
- EntryCafé para dosComposition
- EntryCafé de BarracasComposition
every sentence cites a published fact
What we don't know yet3 of 4 known
The year it was written.
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In other catalogues2
TodoTango · tema/5347
tango.info · T0370237710
Is a1
Is a Tango
Composer1
Composed by Raúl Kaplun
Lyricist1
Lyrics by José María Suñé
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