Ventanita de Arrabal

Carlos Gardel
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Ventanita de arrabal

Suburban little window

Puede que un día vuelva

Maybe one day I'll come back

Si no te puedo olvidar.

If I can't forget you

Cuando esten tus hojas secas

When your leaves are dry

Abrazandome en tus rejas

Hugging me in your bars

Nos pondremos a llorar.

We will start crying


En el barrio caferata

In the caferata neighborhood

En un viejo conventillo

In an old tenement

Con los pisos de ladrillo,

With brick floors

Minga de puerta cancel,

No way to cancel the door

Donde van los organitos

Where the street organs go

Sus lamentos rezongando,

Mumbling their laments

Esta la piba esperando

The girl is waiting

Que pase el muchacho aquel.

For that boy to pass


Aquel que solito

He who alone

Entro al conventillo

Entered the tenement

Echando en los ojos

Casting in his eyes

El fungi marron.

The brown fungus

Botin enterizo

Whole-booted

El cuello con brillo

Neck with shine

Pidio una guitarra

He asked for a guitar

Y pa' ella canto.

And for her, he sang


Aquel que un domingo

He who one Sunday

Bailaron un tango,

They danced a tango

Aquel que le dijo:

He who said to her:

Me muero por vos...

I'm dying for you...

Aquel que su almita

He whose soul

Rodo por el tango, (1)

Wandered through the tango

Aquel que a la reja

He who to the bars

Nunca más volvio.

Never returned


Ventanita del cotorro

Little window of the parrot

Donde solo hay flores secas,

Where there are only dry flowers

Vos también abandonada

You also abandoned

De aquel dia...se quedo.

From that day...it stayed

El rocio de sus hojas,

The dew of its leaves

Las garuas de la ausencia

The rains of absence

Con el dolor de un suspiro

With the pain of a sigh

Tu tronquito destrozo.

Your little trunk destroyed


Gardel canta: "arrastro por el fango".

Gardel sings: "I drag through the mud"

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Santiago, Chile September 30, 2024
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