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JUAN PORTEÑO – Tango with English translation
Carlos Di Sarli c. Mario Pomar 21-01-1955
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Music : Carlos Di Sarli
Lyrics : Héctor Marcó
Photo: Ben Dova was born in Strasbourg on March 14, 1905 as Joseph Späh. After immigrating to the United States, as a young man, he took an interest in vaudeville and became quite an adept acrobat and contortionist. Read the story here
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JUAN PORTEÑO

Este siglo es de locura, de robot y escaparate,
Buenos Aires sigue el ritmo de París o Budapest,
Todo el mundo se alza de hombros y habla de la bomba “Hache”
Quiera Dios que no te cache... una del “Folí Beryer”.
Ríe el pobre, canta el rico... ronca el tano en su cotorro
Se inventó el avión a chorro... y el chorro... raja en avión,
Viene Gina... se va Gina... y de un pícaro planeta
Un marciano en camiseta baja en plato volador.

... Y recostao, pensativo
Contra un farol de la esquina...
Juan Porteño se santigua
Mordiendo el pucho tristón...
¡Piensa acaso entre nostalgias
que aquella ciudad bajita,
de románticas casitas
sólo está en su corazón!...
Despunta la madrugada
Buenos Aires rompe el sueño,...
Y allá se va Juan Porteño
Silbando un tango llorón...

[silbado]

Hoy se dice que la luna es un queso fluorescente,
Y hasta un croto bajo el puente, oye radio en su atelier,
Greta quiere ser artista... con su espejo ríe y sueña
Y no ve que se le quema la comida en la sartén...
¿Por “Te Ve”...? Hoy se palpita el campeonato en la catrera
de “Nuw Yor” y Avellaneda, dan la fija por radar,
¡Este siglo es de locura!... ¿Y si Marte busca arrime?
¡Es que ha visto una “bikini”... por la playa caminar!...

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JUAN PORTEÑO

This century of robots is crazy and I’m going to escape from you
Buenos Aires keeps pace with Paris or Budapest,
Everyone speaks of the "Hydrogen" bomb and shrugs
Heaven forbid, don't get angry ... one of the "Folie Bergère".
The poor laugh, the rich sing ... hoarse, in the basement room
The jet plane, breaking the sound barrier, was invented,
Gina* comes... Gina goes ... and from a rogue planet
A Martian in a T-shirt in a flying saucer.

... And leaning thoughtfully
Against a lamppost on the corner ...
Juan Porteño crosses himself
Biting the sad cigarette butt ...
Think perhaps between nostalgia
And that low city,
Of romantic little houses
It is only in your heart! ...
The mornings breaks
Buenos Aires wakes ...
And there goes Juan Porteño
Whistling a tearful tango ...
.........................................
[Whistling]

Today it is said that the moon is a fluorescent cheese,
And even a tramp under the bridge listens to the radio,
Greta wants to be an artist ... with her mirror she laughs and dreams
And don’t you see that the food is burning in the pan...
With "TV (television)" ...? Now, you can watch the Championship in bed
in "New York" and Avellaneda, they give the “dead cert” by radar.
This century is crazy! ... What if Mars is getting closer?
He has seen a "bikini" ... walking on the beach! ...

*Gina - Reference to Gina Lollobrigida, Italian actress noted more for her beauty, stardom and glamour than her performances.
Gracias a Luis José Mattiuz por esta información.

English translation by Paul Bottomer ©

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