DESCRIPTION:
EL MOTIVO (POBRE PAICA) - Tango with English translation
José Basso c. Floreal Ruíz 04-1962
https://youtu.be/pJg3c-AUseA
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Music: Juan Carlos Cobián
Lyrics: Pascual Contursi

Versions on this channel
Juan Carlos Cobián 03-05-1944
https://youtu.be/gQ86ceeoQCs
Alberto Marino con orquesta, dir. Emilio Balcarce 06-11-1947
https://youtu.be/oXGMUYPe880
Ángel Vargas con orquesta dir. Eduardo Del Piano 28-12-1949
https://youtu.be/aHX10-dJtRA
Alberto Mancione c. Francisco Fiorentino 30-03-1951
http://youtu.be/04K9CRnZOVI
Aníbal Troilo c. Roberto Goyeneche 23-08-1961
https://youtu.be/fqqIHJ2_fhs
José Basso c. Floreal Ruíz 04-1962
http://youtu.be/pJg3c-AUseA
Aníbal Troilo c. Tito Reyes 16-12-1965
https://youtu.be/PMmOIc-Ty_I

And it is interesting that among the versions that are mentioned in the video we have the Troilo singers Fiorentino, Marino, and Ruiz with other orchestras - Theresa Faus

EL MOTIVO (POBRE PAICA)

Mina que fue en otro tiempo
la más papa milonguera
y en esas noches tangueras
fue la reina del festín.
Hoy no tiene pa' ponerse
ni zapatos ni vestidos,
anda enferma y el amigo
no aportó para el bulín.

Ya no tienen sus ojazos
esos fuertes resplandores
y en su cara los colores
se le ven palidecer.
Está enferma, sufre y llora
y manya con sentimiento
de que así, enferma y sin vento
más naide la va a querer.

Pobre paica que ha tenido
a la gente rechiflada
y supo con la mirada
conquistar una pasión.
Hoy no tiene quien se arrime
por cariño a su catrera.
¡Pobre paica arrabalera
que quedó sin corazón!

Y cuando de los bandoneones
se oyen las notas de un tango,
pobre florcita de fango [pobre papusa de fango]
siente en su alma vibrar [siente tristeza
las nostalgias de otros tiempos
de placeres y de amores,
¡hoy sólo son sinsabores
que la invitan a llorar!

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THE REASON (POOR WOMAN)*

The woman who was once in former times
The most beautiful milonguera*
And on those nights of tango
Was the queen of the party.
Now she can no longer do that,
No shoes, no clothes,
She's poorly and her boyfriend
No longer takes her back to his place.

Her eyes no longer have
That radiant look
And in her face, the colour
Has drained to become pale.
She's ill, she suffers and she weeps.
And realises with emotion
That sick and with no money
No one is going to love her.

The poor woman who had
Driven people crazy
And knew how to conquer
Love with just a look.
Now, she has no one who comes
For affection in her bed.
Poor arrabal* woman
Left without a heart!

And when you hear the Bandoneon's notes
In a tango,
The poor little flower of the mud
Feels in her soul vibrate
The longings of former times,
Of pleasures and loves,
That today have become only disappointments
That make her mourn.

*milonguera - tango dancer
*arrabal - the poorest and most squalid areas of Buenos Aires

English translation by Paul Bottomer ©

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