Muchacho

Muchacho

Boy

Que por que la suerte quiso.

Why fate wanted it,

Vivis en un primer piso

You live on a first floor

De un palacete central,

Of a central mansion,

Que para vicios y placeres,

That for vices and pleasures,

Para farras y mujeres

For parties and women,

Dispones de un capital.

You have a capital.

Muchacho

Boy

Que no sabes el encanto

Who doesn't know the charm

De haber derramado llanto

Of having shed tears

Sobre un pecho de mujer,

On a woman's chest,

Que no sabes que es secarse

Who doesn't know what it's like

En una timba y armarse

To dry up in a gambling den

Para volverse a meter.

And gear up to go back in.

Que decis que un tango rante

You say that a swaggering tango

No te hace perder la calma,

Doesn't make you lose your calm,

Y que no te llora el alma

And that your soul doesn't cry

Cuando gime un bandoneon;

When a bandoneon moans;

Que si tenes sentimiento

That if you have feelings,

Lo tenens adormecido

You have them asleep

Pues todo lo has conseguido

Because everything you have achieved

Pagando como un chabon.

By paying like a guy.

Decime

Tell me

Si en tu vida pelandruna

If in your rascal life

Bajo la luz de la luna

Under the moonlight

O si no bajo un farol,

Or if not under a streetlight,

Vos te has sentido poeta

You have felt like a poet

Y le has dicho a una pebeta

And told a girl

Que era más linda que el sol.

She was prettier than the sun.

Decime

Tell me

Si conoces la armonia,

If you know the harmony,

La dulce policromia

The sweet polychromy

De las tardes de arrabal,

Of the evenings in the slums,

Cuando van las fabriqueras

When the factory girls go

Tentadoras y diqueras

Tempting and daring

Bajo el sonoro percal.

Under the resounding percale.