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Song Info
Genre
Charts
Peak #51
Peak in subgenre #17
Author
Carlos Gardel & A. LePera
Rights
Humanity by UN decree
Uploaded
July 17, 2010
Track Files
MP3
MP3 3.7 MB • 128 kbps • 3:59
Story behind the song
Song is a tango originally...Featured in black and white movie of same title by C. Gardel on horse racing....Much later in movie Scent of a woman, with Al Pacino dancing it.
Played/recorded at once with One Man Band rythm software, Hammond B3 organ emulator (Native Instruments B4), Proteus VX. Sonar LE for audio editing, mixing on Lenovo laptop with Audigy 2-ZS sound card. Jazz rythm improvising piano and organ on two keyboards (2-manuals).
Lyrics
Por una cabeza
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Por una cabeza de un noble potrillo
que justo en la raya afloja al llegar
y que al regresar parece decir:
no olvides, hermano,
vos sabes, no hay que jugar...
Por una cabeza, metejon de un dia,
de aquella coqueta y risuena mujer
que al jurar sonriendo,
el amor que esta mintiendo
quema en una hoguera todo mi querer.
Por una cabeza
todas las locuras
su boca que besa
borra la tristeza,
calma la amargura.
Por una cabeza
si ella me olvida
que importa perderme,
mil veces la vida
para que vivir...
Cuantos desenganos, por una cabeza,
yo jure mil veces no vuelvo a insistir
pero si un mirar me hiere al pasar,
su boca de fuego, otra vez, quiero besar.
Basta de carreras, se acabo la timba,
un final renido yo no vuelvo a ver,
pero si algun pingo llega a ser fija el domingo,
yo me juego entero, que le voy a hacer.
English translation found from web:
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Losing by a head of a noble horse
who slackens just down the stretch
and when it comes back it seems to say:
don't forget brother,
You know, you shouldn't bet.
Losing by a head, instant violent love
of that flirtatious and cheerful woman
who, swearing with a smile
a love she's lying about,
burns in a blaze all my love.
Losing by a head
there was all that madness;
her lips in a kiss
wipe out the sadness,
and sooth the bitterness.
Losing by a head
if she forgets me,
no matter to lose
my life a thousand times;
what to live for?
Many deceptions, loosing by a head...
I swore a thousand times not to insist again
but if a look sways me on passing by
her lips of fire, I want to kiss once more.
Enough of race tracks, no more gambling,
a photo-finish I'm not watching again,
but if a buddy comes to invite me this Sunday,
I'll bet everything again, what can I do?
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