Tango Lyrics in Spanish and
English
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CHORRA
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Thief (1928)
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Lyrics by: Enrique Santos Discepolo | Music by: Enrique Santos Discepolo |
Translated by: Alberto Paz | Return to Table of Contents |
Last update on: 1/22/08 | |
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Discepolo wrote this
tango for a play in 1928 using genial expressions of contemporary slang
to tell the story of a guy who got taken to the cleaners by his wife
and her parents. This is perhaps depicted the best in the verse "Entre
todos me pelaron con la cero," referring to the razor used by male hair
stylists to cut the hair to the surface of the scalp. |
CASTELLANO | ENGLISH |
Por ser bueno, me pusiste en la miseria,
me dejaste en la palmera, me afanaste hasta el color. En seis meses me fundiste el mercadito, la casiya de la feria, la ganchera, el mostrador... Chorra! Me robaste hasta el amor... Aura tanto me asusta una mina que si en la calle me afila me pongo al lao del boton. Lo que mas bronca me da es haber sido tan gil. Si hace un mes me desayuno con lo qu' he sabido ayer. No era a mi que me cachaban tus rebusques de mujer... Hoy m'entero que tu mama, "noble viuda de un guerrero", es la chorra de mas fama que piso la treinta y tres. Y he sabido qu' el "guerrero" que murio lleno de honor, ni murio ni fue guerrero - como m' engrupiste vos - Esta en cana pronturiado como agente 'e la camorra, profesor de cachiporra, malandrin y estafador. Entre todos me pelaron con la cero tu silueta fue el anzuelo donde yo me fui a ensartar. Se tragaron, vos, "la viuda" y "el guerrero", lo que me costo diez años de paciencia y de yugar... Chorros! Vos, tu vieja y tu papa. Guarda! Cuidense porque anda suelta, si los cacha, los da vuelta, no les da tiempo a rajar. Lo que mas bronca me da es haber sido tan gil. |
For being nice, you drove me into misery,
you left me hanging from a palm tree, you even stole my color. In six months you bankrupted my little market, the stand at the fair, the hooks, the counter... Thief! You even stole my love... Now a woman scares me so much that if one approaches me on the street I hide behind a cop. What really pisses me off the most is to have been so stupid. For a month I have suspected what I've learned yesterday. It wasn't me who were after, your woman's fleeting love... Today I learned that your mother, "noble widower of a warrior", is the most famous thief that set foot on the 33rd precint. And I found out that the "warrior" who died with full honors, didn't die, nor was a warrior -as you lied to me- He's in jail booked as a hit man of the mafia, professor of truncheon, scroundel and swindler. The three of you took me to the cleaners your silhouete was the hook where I happened to get caught, You, the "widow" and the "warrior" went through what I worked hard and patiently for ten years... Thieves! You, your old lady and your dad. Watch out! Take care because she is on the loose, if she catches you, she flips you upside down she won't give you time to run. What really pisses me off the most is to have been so stupid. |
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