Song
Mi taza de café
Mi taza de café was composed by Alfredo Malerba.
Mi taza de café is a tango.
Mi taza de café was published in 1943.
The lyrics of Mi taza de café are by Homero Manzi.
every sentence cites a published fact
Credit
- Music
- Alfredo Malerba
- Lyrics
- Homero Manzi
Source: TangoCloud catalogue
Every recording
2 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube
Lyrics
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La tarde está muriendo detrás de la vidriera y pienso mientras tomo mi taza de café. Desfilan los recuerdos, los triunfos y las penas las luces y las sombras del tiempo que se fue. La calle está vacía igual que mi destino. Amigos y cariños, barajas del ayer. Fantasmas de la vida, mentiras del camino que evoco mientras tomo mi taza de café. Un día alegremente te conocí, ciudad. Llegué trayendo versos y sueños de triunfar. Te vi desde la altura de un cuarto de pensión y un vértigo de vida sintió mi corazón. Mi pueblo estaba lejos, perdido más allá. Tu noche estaba cerca, tu noche pudo más. Tus calles me llevaron, tu brillo me engañó, ninguno fue culpable, ninguno más que yo. El viento de la tarde revuelve la cortina. La mano del recuerdo me aprieta el corazón. La pena del otoño agranda la neblina: se cuela por la hendija de mi desolación Inútil pesimismo, deseo de estar triste. Manía de andar siempre pensando en el ayer. Fantasmas del pasado que vuelven y que insisten cuando en las tardes tomo mi taza de café.
English · machine translation
The afternoon is dying behind the shop window and I think as I sip my cup of coffee. Memories parade, triumphs and sorrows the lights and shadows of time gone by. The street is empty just like my destiny. Friends and sweethearts, decks of yesterday. Ghosts of life, lies of the road that I evoke while I drink my cup of coffee. One day I happily met you, city. I arrived bringing verses and dreams of triumph. I saw you from the height of a boarding house room and my heart felt a vertigo of life. My town was far away, lost beyond. Your night was near, your night was stronger. Your streets carried me away, your brightness deceived me, none was guilty, none more than me. The evening wind stirs the curtain. The hand of memory squeezes my heart. Autumn's sorrow enlarges the mist: It creeps through the crack of my desolation. Useless pessimism, desire to be sad. Mania of always thinking about yesterday. Ghosts of the past that return and insist when in the afternoons I drink my cup of coffee.
Danced to it
Music from 1943–1944 · danced on film 2011–2024
2011: 1, 2018: 1, 2023: 1, 2024: 1
Through the decades
Data: recordings, facts and sources
Recordings by year
Source: TangoCloud catalogue
1943: 1, 1944: 1
Composer1
Composed by Alfredo Malerba
Supported · 2In other catalogues2
TodoTango · tema/281
Single sourcetango.info · Z0000064696
Single sourceIs a1
Is a Tango
Single sourcePublished1
Published 1943
Single sourceLyricist1
Lyrics by Homero Manzi
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