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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. Carnaval de mi barrio     Carnival of my neighborhood   Music & lyrics: Luis Rubistein Rec. by Edgardo Donato with Lita Morales   Tr. Jake Spatz Recited 02 August 2006, Divino Lounge   Mi barrio está de fiesta,    con su mejor sonrisa y una ternura extraña,    me invade el corazón, parece que las horas,    corriesen más de prisa y que del mismo barro    brotase una canción. La murga de purretes    desafinando un tango machuca los oidos    con destemplada voz, gorriones de mi barrio,    que vuelcan en el fango, puñados de alegria,    que les regala Dios. My neighborhood's all revelry,    with its biggest smile on, and an unexpected tenderness    steals throughout my heart; the hours seem to pass    with a far more urgent run, and out of the very clay,    a song comes sprouting forth. The band of street kids singing    a tango all out of tune come crashing around the ears    with voices shrill and flawed, sparrows of my neighborhood,    gone spilling across the mud, happiness by the handful,    theirs by the grace of god. !Carnaval de mi barrio!, donde todo es amor, cascabeles de risa, matizando el dolor... !Carnaval de mi barrio!, pedacito de sol, con nostalgias de luna, y canción de farol. Carnival of my neighborhood! where everything is love, with jingle-bells of laughter that make the sorrows fade... Carnival of my neighborhood!, a little piece of sun, with moonlight-fed nostalgias and streetlamp serenades. La que volvio sin honra,    se disfrazó de apache, y el barrio en cada puerta,    comenta sin cesar, su traje descarado,    sus ojos azabache, y su poca vergüenza,    que no sabe ocultar. El tano verdulero,    sentado en la vereda, mastica su cachimbo,    cansado de fumar y en su sonrisa amarga    una nostalgia enreda; también alla en Italia    vivió su carnaval. The girl who went back disgraced,    in working-girl disguise, set every door of the neighborhood    gossiping with zeal: the cheeky way she's dressed,    the jet-black of her eyes, her utter lack of modesty,    which she doesn't even conceal... On the sidewalk the Italian grocer,    sitting there in his sleeves, tired of smoking his pipe,    gives it a little chew, and in his bitter smile    a reminiscence weaves: way back in Italy once,    he lived up his carnival too. Table of Contents Questions? Comments? Email the Editor.
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