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POR QUE LA QUISE TANTO

Why I loved her so much (1961)
Nena




Jorge Maciel
with the orchestra of Osvaldo Pugliese
Music by: Maríano Mores
Lyrics by: Rodolfo M. Taboada
Translated by: Alberto Paz
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Released by Hugo del Carril in the show Stars in the Avenue, in September of 1961. Mariano Mores recorded with Miguel Montero in February 1961. There is a 1962 Jose Basso recording with Roberto Flori.  In 1963, Osvaldo Pugliese with Jorge for Maciel recorded it the Phillips label.


Version en castellano English translation
Remotos bandoneones
despliegan en la noche
sus pajaros de bruma;
y un coro de fantasmas
que gritan en las sombras
preguntan y preguntan,
preguntan por que lloro,
preguntan por que canto,
por que no la maldigo,
por que la quise tanto... tanto...

Yo solo se que fue el remanso de mi vida gris,
que en el calvario de mis dias fue una tibia luz,
que bendigo esta negra cruz,
que esta aqui... y esta ausente...
y sangra en mis labios desesperadamente.

Las sombras implacables
jugando con mi angustia
me acosan y preguntan.
Preguntan por que en vano
la espero todavia;
por que vivo soñando
que alguna vez fue mia... mia...

Yo solo se que fue el remanso de mi vida gris,
que en el calvario de mis dias fue una tibia luz,
que bendigo esta negra cruz,
que esta aqui... y esta ausente...
y sangra en mis labios desesperadamente.
Remote bandoneons
unfold in the night
its birds of mist;
and a choir of ghosts
that shout in the shades
ask and ask,
ask why I cry,
ask why I sing,
why I don't curse her,
why I loved her so much... so much...

All I know that she was the backwater of my gray life,
that in the calvary of my day she was a lukewarm light,
that I bless this black cross,
that she is here... and she's absent...
and bleeds desperately in my lips.

The implacable shades
playing with my anguish
harass me and ask.
They ask why, in vain
I still wait for her;
why I live dreaming
that one time she was mine... mine...

All I know that she was the backwater of my gray life,
that in the calvary of my day she was a lukewarm light,
that I bless this black cross,
that she is here... and she's absent...
and bleeds desperately in my lips.


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