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YIRA, YIRA

Cruisin’, cruisin’ (1926)

Music by: Carlos Gardel
Lyrics by: Alfredo Lepera
Translated by: Frank Sasson
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In Yira, yira, Enrique Santos Discepolo rflects upon the inevitable end of our lives and the plight of those who live cruising and cruising throughr life without ever finding a purpose and life, cruising I've taken the liberty to suggest a couple of technical changes on Yira, yira which reflect a little closer the message conveyed by Discepolin. Grela, for example, is one of many pejorative names given to women. When Discepolo says that "luck is grela" he's associating the consequences of having luck dodge you with the consequences of "bad" things "women do to men". Yirar is indeed a lingo originally associated with the cruising of the street walkers. It has also been adopted as a way to describe the action of walking aimlesly, cruising, drifting. Yira or Yiro is also a name commonly used to address a street walker. Largar para'o (Largar parado) has the meaning of being abandoned. Otario is an idiot, a sap.


Version en castellano English translation
Cuando la suerte que es grela
ando y fallando, te largue parao,
cuando estes bien en la via,
sin rumbo desesperao.
Cuando no tengas ni fe,
ni yerba de ayer,
secandose al sol...

Cuando rajes los tamangos
buscando ese mango
que te haga morfar...
La indiferencia del mundo
que es sordo y es mudo,
recien sentiras.

Veras que todo es mentira,
veras que nada es amor
que al mundo nada le importa,
Yira...yira...

Aunque te quiebre la vida,
aunque te muerda un dolor,
no esperes nunca una ayuda
ni una mano...ni un favor.

Cuando esten secas las pilas
de todos los timbres
que vos apretas...
buscando un pecho fraterno
para morir...Abrazao...

Cuando te larguen parao
despues de cinchar
lo mismo que a mi.
Cuando manyes que a tu lado
se prueban la ropa
que vas a dejar,
te acordaras de este otario
que un dia cansado
se puso a ladrar.

Aunque te quiebre la vida,
aunque te muerda un dolor,
no esperes nunca una ayuda
ni una mano...ni un favor.
When luck which is very bad
ng and missing, leaves you alone,
When you're well on the way
Without desperate direction
When you don't even have faith
Nor yesterday's weed (mate)
Being dried by the sun

When you split the dancing shoes
Looking for that dough
To be able to eat
You will now feel
The indifference of that
deaf and dumb world.

You'll see that everything is a lie
You'll see that nothing is love
That the world doesn't care
Yira yira *1

Even though life will break you
Even if a pain will bite you
Don't ever expect a help
Nor a hand .... Nor a favor

When the batteries
Of all the bells you ring,
have dried up,
While looking for a brotherly chest
To die in an embrace

When they leave you alone *2
After cinching*
The same as myself
When you notice that beside you
They're trying on the clothes
That you are leaving,
You will remember this otario *3
That one day, tired
Started to bark

Even though life will break you
Even if a pain will bite you
Don't ever expect a help
Nor a hand .... Nor a favor


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