| Muchacho (original) | Muchacho (translation) |
|---|---|
| Muchacho | Young guy |
| Que por que la suerte quiso | That because luck wanted |
| Vivis en un primer piso | You live on the 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 | Young guy |
| Que no sabes el encanto | That you don't know the charm |
| De haber derramado llanto | of having shed tears |
| Sobre un pecho de mujer | On a woman's breast |
| Que no sabes que es secarse | That you don't know what it is to dry up |
| En una timba y armarse | In a timba and arm yourself |
| Para volverse a meter | to get back in |
| Que decis que un tango rante | What do you say that a tango rante |
| No te hace perder la calma | Doesn't make you lose your cool |
| 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 | What if you have feeling |
| Lo tenens adormecido | you keep it numb |
| Pues todo lo has conseguido | Well, you have achieved everything |
| Pagando como un chabon | Paying like a kid |
| Decime | Tell me |
| Si en tu vida pelandruna | If in your pelandruna life |
| Bajo la luz de la luna | under the moonlight |
| O si no bajo un farol | Or else under a lantern |
| Vos te has sentido poeta | You have felt like a poet |
| Y le has dicho a una pebeta | And you told a pebeta |
| Que era más linda que el sol | That she was prettier than the sun |
| Decime | Tell me |
| Si conoces la armonia | If you know the harmony |
| La dulce policromia | The sweet polychrome |
| De las tardes de arrabal | Of the suburb afternoons |
| Cuando van las fabriqueras | When the factories go |
| Tentadoras y diqueras | Temptresses and diqueras |
| Bajo el sonoro percal | Under the sonorous percale |
