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Home Classes LYRICS Essays Links About	LYRICS Check back often for a harvest of tango lyrics translated by Jake Spatz Recuerdo     A memory   Music: Osvaldo Pugliese Lyrics: Eduardo Moreno Rec. by Osvaldo Pugliese with Jorge Maciel   Tr. Jake Spatz Recited 23 Nov. 05, Divino Lounge   Ayer cantaron poetas y lloraron las orquestas, en las suaves noches del romántico querer cuando la bohemia de la frágil juventud aprisionada en un encanto de mujer quebró los sueños en el bar del barrio sur muriendo su canción quemando la ilusión de su dulce amor. Yesterday poets sang, and the orchestras broke into tears, in the easy nights of romantic desire, when the bohemian times of delicate youth— held prisoner in a spell of woman's weaving— shattered still sleep from the bar of the southside hood, its love-song dying out, burning up the illusion of its sweet love. Mujer, de mi poema mejor; mujer, yo nunca tuve un amor. perdón si eres mi gloria ideal; perdón, serás mi verso inicial. Woman—my greatest poem is yours! Woman—I'd never had your love before! Forgive me, for your being my glory divine; forgive me: you shall be first among my lines. Y la voz en el bar para siempre apagó; el motivo sin par que el amor cantó lluvia y dulce jazmín que soñando el (tan) país llevara en sus pasos la gloria que fue de aquellos muchachos del viejo café. And the voice in the bar went out forevermore; the peerless cause which it sang love for, sweet jasmine and rain, that dreaming of such a place carried in its footsteps the glory that went away and left behind those folks in the old café. Te busqué por el mar y jamás te encontré el cielo y yo un sueño azul que se durmió en una estrella. Sie he rodado por los bares de otros mundos misteriosos buscando aquel milagroso perfume de la ilusión. I sought you over the sea and never found you— the heavens and I, one slumber of blue that slept itself into a star. I went knocking about the bars of faraway worlds of mystery, questing after that miraculous perfume of illusion... Quién cerró en el recuerdo tu cofre de amor. one who'd locked up in his memory your strongbox of love. Table of Contents Questions? Comments? Email the Editor.
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