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Organito de la tarde

Alberto MARINOtango3 videos
Singer: Alberto MARINOSinger 2: Dir. Emilio BalcarceComposer: Cátulo CastilloAuthor: José González Castillo

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Lyrics
Al paso tardo de un pobre viejo
puebla de notas el arrabal,
con un concierto de vidrios rotos,
el organito crepuscular.
Dándole vueltas a la manija
un hombre rengo marcha detrás
mientras la dura pata de palo
marca del tango el compás.

En las notas de esa musiquita
hay no sé qué de vaga sensación
que el barrio parece
impregnarse todo de emoción.
Y es porque son tantos los recuerdos
que a su paso despertando va
que llena las almas con un gran deseo de llorar.

Y al triste son
de esa su canción
sigue el organito lerdo
como sembrando a su paso
más pesar en el recuerdo,
más calor en el ocaso.
Y allá se va
de su tango al son
como buscando la noche
que apagará su canción.

Cuentan las viejas que todo saben
y que el pianito junta a charlar
que aquel viejito tuvo una hija
que era la gloria del arrabal.
Cuentan que el rengo era su novio
y que en el corte no tuvo igual...
Supo con ella, y en las milongas,
con aquel tango reinar.

Pero vino un día un forastero,
bailarín, buen mozo y peleador
que en una milonga
compañera y pierna le quitó.
Desde entonces es que padre y novio
van buscando por el arrabal
la ingrata muchacha
al compás de aquel tango fatal.
English translation
At the slow pace of a poor old man
populates the suburb with notes,
with a concert of broken glass,
the twilight organ.
Turning the handle
a lame man marches behind
while the hard wooden leg
marks the tango beat.

In the notes of that little music
there is some vague sensation
that the neighborhood seems
to be impregnated with emotion.
And it is because there are so many memories
that in its wake it awakens
that fills the souls with a great desire to cry.

And to the sad sound
of that song of hers
follows the little slow organ
as if sowing in its wake
more sorrow in the memory,
more warmth in the sunset.
And there it goes
of its tango to the sound
as if searching for the night
that will extinguish his song.

The old women tell that they know everything
and that the little piano brings them together to chat
that that old man had a daughter
who was the glory of the suburb.
They say that the lame man was her boyfriend
and that in the court she had no equal...
He knew with her, and in the milongas,
with that tango to reign.

But one day a stranger came,
dancer, handsome and a fighter
who in a milonga
and leg he took away his partner and his leg.
Since then, father and boyfriend
have been looking for the ungrateful girl
the ungrateful girl
to the beat of that fatal tango.

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