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Singer: Anibal TROILOSinger 2: Raúl BerónComposer: Ángel GattiAuthor: Ángel Gatti

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Lyrics
Corrientes de antes, Corrientes vieja,
de muchachito me conocés.
Yo he compadreado por tus veredas,
pare en el feca “Los treinta y seis”.
Yo soy del tiempo del Pibe Ernesto,
del gran Carlitos y El Cachafaz.
Vivía entonces mi cariñito
en un cotorro de “El Palomar”.

¡Todo pasa en esta vida!
¡Te cambiaron Corrientes angosta!
Ya no sos la calle posta
donde un día supe andar...
Yo tampoco soy el mismo,
hoy ya no tengo la pinta de antaño
y entre tus luces me siento tan extraño,
que me dan ganas de lagrimear.

Aquella barra de amigos tauras
hoy no pasea, se dispersó.
Quedamos pocos para cantarte
un tango triste de evocación.
Aunque en tus calles transiten hombres
que son la nueva generación,
Corrientes mía, calle querida,
Estás metida en mi corazón.
English translation
Corrientes from before, old Corrientes,
when I was a little boy you knew me.
I've walked along your sidewalks,
I stopped at the feca "Los treinta y seis".
I am from the time of Pibe Ernesto,
of the great Carlitos and El Cachafaz.
At that time my little sweetheart lived
in a cotorro of "El Palomar".

Everything happens in this life!
They changed narrow Corrientes!
You are no longer the street
where I once knew how to walk...
I'm not the same either,
today I no longer have the look of yesteryear
and among your lights I feel so strange
that it makes me want to cry.

That bar of taura friends
no longer strolls today, it dispersed.
Few of us are left to sing you
a sad tango of evocation.
Although in your streets men who are the new generation
who are the new generation,
Corrientes, my beloved street,
You are in my heart.

The Cabeceo