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| Patotero sentimental | Sentimental gangster | |
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Music: Manuel Jovés Lyrics: Manuel Romero Rec. by Carlos Di Sarli with Roberto Rufino |
Tr. Jake Spatz Recited 23 May 07, Divino Lounge |
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Patotero, rey del bailongo, patotero sentimental, escondes bajo tu risa muchas ganas de llorar. |
Gangster, king of the dance hall, sentimental gangster, behind this laughter of yours you hide such a great urge to cry. |
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Ya los años se van pasando, y en mi pecho no entra un querer, en mi vida tuve muchas, muchas minas, pero nunca una mujer... |
All the years now, they keep on passing, and in my chest, no loves come in; in my life I've had many and many a dame, but never once a woman. |
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Cuando tomo dos copas de mas, en mi pecho comienza a surgir, el recuerdo de aquella fiel mujer que me quiso de verdad y que ingrato abandone... De su amor, me burle sin mirar, que pudiera sentirlo después, sin pensar que los años al correr iban crueles a amargar a este rey del cabaret. |
When I throw back a few extra drinks, in my chest there begins to arise my memory of that girl true to me who loved me for real and whom I left thanklessly... I had a laugh at her love without seeing I could ever feel bad later on— without thinking that as the years speed away they'd be cruel and embitter this king of the cabaret. |
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Pobrecita, como lloraba cuando ciego la eche a rodar, la patota me miraba, y no es de hombre el aflojar. |
How she cried there, the poor thing, when blindly I sent her away... the gang had their eyes on me then, and it ain't like a man to give in. |
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Patotero, rey del bailongo siempre de ella te acordaras: hoy reís, pero en tu risa, solo hay ganas de llorar. |
Gangster, king of the dance hall, you'll always remember her now: you might laugh, but under your laughter there's only the urge to cry. |
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