Music: Enrique Santos Discépolo
Lyrics: Enrique Santos Discépolo & Ray Rada
Translation: Michael Krugman
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Recorded by Francisco Canaro with Charlo in 1930
Recorded by Francisco Canaro with Charlo in 1930
Recorded by Orquesta Típica Víctor with Carlos Lafuente in 1931
Recorded by Orquesta Típica Víctor with Carlos Lafuente in 1931
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Hace cinco días,
loco de contento
vivo en movimiento
como un carrusel…
Ella que pensaba
amurarme el uno,
justo el treinta y uno
yo la madrugué…
Me contó un vecino,
que la inglesa loca,
cuando vio la pieza
sin un alfiler,
se morfó la soga
de colgar la ropa
(que fue en el apuro,
lo que me olvidé…).
(Instrumental)
(Unsung Part)
Si ahorca no me paga
las que yo pasé.
Era un mono loco
que encontré en un árbol
una noche de hambre
que me vio pasar.
Me tiró un coquito…
¡yo que soy chicato…
me ensarté al oscuro
y la llevé al bulín!…
Sé que entré a la pieza
y encendí la vela,
sé que me di vuelta
para verla bien…
Era tan fulera,
que la vi, di un grito,
lo demás fue un sueño…
¡Yo, me desmayé!
La aguanté de pena
casi cuatro meses,
entre la cachada
de todo el café…
Le tiraban nueces,
mientras me gritaban:
"¡Ahí va Sarrasani
con el chimpancé"!…
Gracias a que el "Zurdo",
que es tipo derecho,
le regó el helecho
cuando se iba a alzar;
y la redoblona
de amurarme el uno
¡justo el treinta y uno
se la fui a cortar!
English
English
It’s been five days, mad with happiness,
I’m whirling about like a carousel…
She was planning to leave me the first of the month,*
but right on the 31st I beat her to the punch…
A neighbor told me, that the English slut,
when she saw the flat without so much as a pin,
nearly hung herself on the clothesline
(the one that I, in my rush had left behind.)
(Instrumental)
(Unsung Part)
If she hangs it doesn't pay me
for what I went through.
She was a crazy monkey
I found in a tree
on a night of hunger
that she saw me passing.
She threw me a coquito…
I, who am nearsighted…
In the darkness, I screwed up,
and took her back to my place!…
I know that I went into the flat
and lit the candle,
I know that I turned
to get a good look at her…
She was so ugly that,
seeing her, I let out a cry,
the rest was a dream…
I fainted dead away!
I put up with her
almost four months,
despite the teasing
of everyone at the café…
They threw nuts at her,
while yelling at me:
“There goes Sarrasani
with the chimpanzee!”
Thanks to Lefty,
who is an honest guy,
he "watered her fern"
when she was about to clean the place out;
and the double bet
of leaving me on the first…
right on the thirty-first
I broke up with her!
Recorded by Juan D'Arienzo with Mario Bustos in 1958
Recorded by Juan D'Arienzo with Mario Bustos in 1958
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