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No mientas

Music by Héctor Varela, Alfredo Lattero, lyrics by Héctor Marcó. 1 recordings in our catalogue, 1938–1938.

Who recorded it

Every version1

Earliest we hold: Juan D'Arienzo, 1938

  1. Juan D'ArienzoAlberto Echagüe1938

Versions of No mientas recorded 1938

No mientas was composed by Héctor Varela and Alfredo Lattero.† The lyrics of No mientas are by Héctor Marcó.†

The song

The piece as people name it, whoever plays it.

1 orchestra recorded it

440 Dances filmed to it

Who wrote it

Music
Héctor Varela, Alfredo Lattero
Words
Héctor Marcó
Written
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First played
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Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Lyrics

Español

Fueron tus palabras la canción de mi esperanza y en tus tibias manos se durmió mi corazón. Era tan feliz y fue tan ciega mi confianza, que jamás la duda vino a mi razón. Pero hoy solo siento que tus lágrimas me queman y ese llanto impío que me quiere convencer. Es la carcajada de tu voz, que me condena a vivir siempre engañado en tu querer. ¡No mientas! Que tu boca pecadora se distingue cuando implora sus mentiras al jurar. ¡No mientas! Si en tus ojos he leído que tu amor ya me he perdido y es inútil suplicar. ¡Hablame! La verdad quiero que digas no se mata con intrigas de ese modo un corazón ¡No mientas! Que me amargo al contemplarte y el afán de perdonarte me podría hacer traición. Se que si te apiadas de mi vida que agoniza y en un gesto franco tu interior me dejas ver hallaré las brasas de mi amor hechas cenizas, mas nada me importa si así debe ser. Solo quiero verte con el alma descubierta, afrontando todo por tener sinceridad Para que al marcharme con mis pobre flores muertas, lleve al menos de tus labios la verdad.

English · machine translation

Your words were the song of my hope and in your warm hands my heart fell asleep. I was so happy and my trust was so blind, that doubt never came into my reason. But today I only feel that your tears burn me and that unholy cry that wants to convince me. It is the laughter of your voice, which condemns me to live always deceived in your love. Do not lie! That your sinful mouth distinguishes itself when it implores your lies when you swear. Do not lie! If in your eyes I have read that I have already lost your love and it is useless to beg. Speak to me! The truth I want you to tell you don't kill with intrigues that way a heart Don't lie! That I become bitter when I contemplate you and the eagerness to forgive you could make me treason. I know that if you take pity on my agonizing life and in a frank gesture you let me see your inner self I will find the embers of my love in ashes, but I don't care if that's the way it should be. I just want to see you with my soul uncovered, facing everything to have sincerity So that when I leave with my poor dead flowers, I'll take at least from your lips the truth.

Every version

Computed from the catalogue, not yet written by anyone

The catalogue holds 1 recordings of this song by 1 orchestras, 1938 to 1938.

1 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 3 more we know of

a version people dance tono Dances matched yet: something to listen to

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  1. Juan D'ArienzoEarliest we holdMost dancedNo mientasJuan D'ArienzoAlberto EchagüetangoRCA Victor
    440 dances
    1938
  2. Francisco CanaroNot in our catalogueAda Falcón · Sep 281938
  3. Héctor MauréNot in our catalogue
  4. -unspecified orchestra-Not in our catalogueHéctor Mauré
All recordings of No mientas

One recording

A dated take, with its sound and the couples dancing it.

Juan D'Arienzo

No mientasJuan D'ArienzoAlberto EchagüetangoRCA Victor

Couples filmed dancing this recording · 431 Performances

Danced to it

Music from 1938 · danced on film 2008–2026

20082026
By the year it was danced; each dance counts once, however many channels filmed it

2008: 11, 2009: 1, 2010: 17, 2011: 13, 2012: 23, 2013: 24, 2014: 30, 2015: 30, 2016: 26, 2017: 19, 2018: 23, 2019: 25, 2020: 6, 2021: 6, 2022: 15, 2023: 13, 2024: 20, 2025: 10, 2026: 3

Where it is danced

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

  1. Salón CanningPalermo
    9 performances
  2. Espacio Riobamba (Club Castel)Balvanera
    4 performances
  3. La Viruta (Centro Armenio)Palermo
    3 performances
  4. Salón La NacionalMonserrat
    3 performances
  5. MarabúSan Nicolás
    2 performances
  6. Sunderland ClubVilla Urquiza
    2 performances
  7. Club Social y Deportivo Fulgor de Villa CrespoVilla Crespo
    1 performance
  8. Cátulo TangoBalvanera
    1 performance
  9. La CatedralAlmagro
    1 performance

Filmed sets

One Couple dancing three or four songs at one Occasion, every song known. What was danced on film, not what a DJ played.

3 of 46 complete sets on film

  1. Gisela Natoli and Gustavo Rosas

    Festival Tango Porto · In the order danced: the video titles number them

    1. 1MariónMiguel Caló, 1943
    2. 2No mientasJuan D'Arienzo, 1938
    3. 3AnonéAstor Piazzolla, 1957
    4. 4Estampa de varónJuan D'Arienzo, 1938
    Watch it on TangoTube
  2. Fabián Peralta and Josefina Bermúdez

    Viva La Pepa, 2015 · In the order danced: the video titles number them

    1. 1No mientasJuan D'Arienzo, 1938
    2. 2GólgotaRodolfo Biagi, 1938
    3. 3Gallo ciegoOsvaldo Pugliese, 1959
    4. 4La espuelaJuan D'Arienzo, 1946
    Watch it on TangoTube
  3. Carlitos Espinoza and Noelia Hurtado

    La Bruja, 2016 · In upload order: nobody has said the order danced

    1. 1Manos adoradasOsvaldo Pugliese, 1952
    2. 2No mientasJuan D'Arienzo, 1938
    3. 3Oro de leyJuan D'Arienzo, 1944
    4. 4La serenata de ayerJuan D'Arienzo, 1941
    Watch it on TangoTube

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What we don't know yet3 of 4 known

The year it was written.

Data: recordings, facts and sources

In other catalogues2

tango.info · T0370021149

TodoTango · tema/720

Composer2

Composed by Héctor Varela

Composed by Alfredo Lattero

Lyricist1

Lyrics by Héctor Marcó

Listen

  1. No mientasJuan D'ArienzoAlberto EchagüetangoRCA Victor

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