Tango Lyrics in Spanish and English

UNA NOCHE DE GARUFA
A night of partying (1909)
Lyrics by: Gabriel Clausi
Music by: Eduardo Arolas
 
Translated by: Alberto Paz
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Nena


NO SUNG VERSION CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
THIS IS A GOLDEN ERA RECORDING BY
THE RICARDO TANTURI ORCHESTRA

“One night of garufa” was Eduardo Arolas first tango. It was conceived in 1909 barely a 17 year old teenager with an attitude and a penchant for flashy dressing. The tales of the tango lore say that the tango was conceived very intuitively, “by ear”, repeated by memory, since Arolas did not know music to write it in a pentagrama. Francisco Canaro, in his memories writes that he wrote the score for violin, soon Carlos Hernani Macchi wrote the part corresponding to the piano.

CASTELLANO ENGLISH
En esta noche de garufa
yo me quiero divertir
con los amigos de bohemia
en el viejo Armenonville.
La vida es corta
y se pianta muy pronto,
en esta noche hay que vivir.
En las nostálgicas veladas
vuelve el tiempo del ayer
con este tango que nos lleva
como un sueño a su compás.
Viejos recuerdos, paicas papusas,
dulce momento del ayer.

Cómo me emocionan tus notas
en esta velada porteña,
deja que la música embriague
para hacer, del tango una fiesta.
Yo te soñé como nostalgia que vuelve,
vida, en suaves noches de luna,
de antes, son los recuerdos que añoro
de la garufa que ya se fue.

Viejo recuerdo tanguero
quiero vivir esta emoción,
besar tus labios rojos,
muchacha diquera.
Que se enciendan los faroles
para alumbrar esta ilusión
de ver tus ojos negros
brillando por mi amor.
In this night of "garufa"
I want to have fun
with friends of the bohemia
at the old Armenonville.
Life is short and
it's gone in a moment,
in this night it is necessary to live.
In the nostalgic evening parties
the old times return
with this tango that takes us
like a dream with its rhythm.
Old memories, pretty women,
sweet moments from the past.

How your notes move me
in this Buenos Aires evening;
let the music intoxicate
to make of a tango a celebration.
I dreamed of you like nostalgia that returns,
in pleasant moonlit nights,
from the past are the memories I long for
of the garufa that already went away.

Old tanguero memory
I want to live this emotion,
to kiss your red lips,
presumptuous girl.
Let the streetlamps light up
to illuminate this illusion
of seeing your black eyes
shining for my love.

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