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Home Classes LYRICS Essays Links About	LYRICS Check back often for a harvest of tango lyrics translated by Jake Spatz NB: If the verses are out of alignment, try clicking "Refresh" in your web browser. Por una cabeza     Lost by a head   Music: Carlos Gardel Lyrics: Alfredo Le Pera Rec. by Carlos Gardel   Tr. Jake Spatz Recited 12 Oct. 05, Divino Lounge   Por una cabeza de un noble potrillo que justo en la raya afloja al llegar, y que al regresar parece decir: No olvidés, hermano, vos sabés, no hay que jugar. Por una cabeza, metejón de un día de aquella coqueta y burlona mujer, que al jurar sonriendo el amor que está mintiendo, quema en una hoguera todo mi querer. By only a head there with that purebred pony that slackened its pace as it came down the stretch, and on the parade lap seemed to say: "Brother, don't you forget now, no one forced you to bet." By only a head there, a day's infatuation with that young flirtatious, satirical tease, who swore through her smile to a love that was guile, and threw my affection in a bonfire's blaze. Por una cabeza, todas las locuras. Su boca que besa, borra la tristeza, calma la amargura. Por una cabeza, si ella me olvida qué importa perderme mil veces la vida, para qué vivir. By only a head there, all kinds of madness. The way her mouth kisses erases the sadness, it pacifies the gall. By only a head there, if she should forget me, what's it matter to me to die a thousand times, —why go on at all. Cuántos desengaños, por una cabeza. Yo juré mil veces, no vuelvo a insistir. Pero si un mirar me hiere al pasar, sus labios de fuego otra vez quiero besar. Basta de carreras, se acabó la timba. ¡Un final reñido ya no vuelvo a ver! Pero si algún pingo llega a ser fija el domingo, yo me juego entero. ¡Qué le voy a hacer..! How many hard lessons, by only a head there. I've sworn a thousand times, I won't press my luck again. And yet if a glance arrests me in passing, her liplock of fire I again want to kiss. Enough of the races, I've folded my hand. It's not my photo-finish, I'm not buying in. And yet if, come Sunday, some filly's the favorite —what else can I do?— I'll take her to win. Table of Contents Questions? Comments? Email the Editor.
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