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La pulpera de Santa Lucía

Music by Enrique Maciel. 4 recordings in our catalogue, 1929–1987.
1929: 1 · danced 0 times1930: 1 · danced 0 times1945: 1 · danced 0 times1987: 1 · danced 0 times
1929’40’50’60’70’801987
records made· our catalogue

1929: 1, 0; 1930: 1, 0; 1945: 1, 0; 1987: 1, 0

La pulpera de Santa Lucía was composed by Enrique Maciel.

La pulpera de Santa Lucía is a vals.

La pulpera de Santa Lucía was published in 1929.

Linked to La pulpera de Santa Lucía (used in lyric): mazorquero.

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Credit

Music
Enrique Maciel

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Every recording

4 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 12 more we know of

1920’30’40’50’60’70’80

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

  1. Francisco CanaroEarliest we holdOdeon · Jun 121929
  2. Nuevo Quinteto Real (Horacio Salgán)Philips1987
  3. Enrique AlessioAlberto Castillo · Apr 241945
  4. Rafael Canaro Y Su Orquesta ArgentinaCarlos Dante1930
  5. -unspecified guitars-Not in our catalogueIgnacio Corsini · Apr 221929
  6. Nelly OmarNot in our catalogue1930
  7. Rafael CanaroNot in our catalogueCarlos Dante1932
  8. Enzo ValentinoNot in our catalogue1970
  9. Hugo DíazNot in our catalogue1974
  10. Ariel RamírezNot in our catalogue1976
  11. Imperio ArgentinaNot in our catalogue
  12. Nelly OmarNot in our catalogue
  13. Miguel VillasboasNot in our catalogue
  14. Rafael RossiNot in our catalogue-unspecified male-
  15. Trío CentralNot in our catalogue
  16. -unspecified guitars-Not in our catalogueAlberto Gómez

Lyrics

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Era rubia y sus ojos celestes reflejaban la gloria del día y cantaba como una calandria la pulpera de Santa Lucía. Era flor de la vieja parroquia. ¿Quién fue el gaucho que no la quería? Los soldados de cuatro cuarteles suspiraban en la pulpería. Le cantó el con un dulce gemir de vihuelas en la reja que olía a jazmines, en el patio que olía a diamelas. 'Con el alma te quiero, pulpera, y algún día tendrás que ser mía, mientras llenan las noches del barrio las guitarras de Santa Lucía'. La llevó un de Lavalle cuando el año cuarenta moría; ya no alumbran sus ojos celestes la parroquia de Santa Lucía. No volvieron los trompas de Rosas a cantarle vidalas y cielos. En la reja de la pulpería los jazmines lloraban de celos. Y volvió el a cantar en el patio vacío la doliente y postrer serenata que llevábase el viento del río: ¿Dónde estás con tus ojos celestes, oh pulpera que no fuiste mía?' ¡Cómo lloran por ti las guitarras, las guitarras de Santa Lucía!

English · machine translation

She was blonde and her light blue eyes reflected the glory of the day and she sang like a lark the pulpera of Santa Lucia. She was a flower of the old parish. Who was the gaucho who did not love her? The soldiers of four barracks sighed in the pulperia. The payador mazorquero sang to her with a sweet moaning of vihuelas in the grille that smelled of jasmine, in the courtyard that smelled of diamonds. 'With my soul I love you, pulpera, and someday you'll have to be mine, while the nights of the neighborhood are filled the guitars of Santa Lucia'. She was taken by a payador from Lavalle when the year forty was dying; her light blue eyes no longer illuminate the parish of Santa Lucía. The horns of Rosas did not return to sing vidalas and skies to him. In the grille of the pulpería the jasmines wept with jealousy. And the payador mazorquero returned to sing in the empty courtyard the mournful and final serenade carried by the wind from the river: Where are you with your light blue eyes, O pulpera that was not mine? How the guitars cry for you! the guitars of Santa Lucia!

Data: recordings, facts and sources

Composer1

Composed by Enrique Maciel

Supported · 2

In other catalogues2

TodoTango · tema/602

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tango.info · T0370023678

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Is a1

Is a Vals

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Published1

Published 1929

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Used in lyric1

mazorquero — used in lyric La pulpera de Santa Lucía

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Listen

  1. La pulpera de Santa LucíaFrancisco Canaro · no clip yet1929
  2. La pulpera de Santa LucíaCarlos Dante · no clip yet1930
  3. La pulpera de Santa LucíaEnrique Alessio · Alberto Castillo · no clip yet1945
  4. La pulpera de Santa LucíaNuevo Quinteto Real (Horacio Salgán)1987

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