| Por las noches, cara sucia
| At night, dirty face
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| de angelito con bluyín,
| as a little angel with blue jeans,
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| vende rosas por las mesas
| sell roses by the tables
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| del boliche de Bachín.
| from the Bachín bowling alley.
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| Si la luna brilla
| If the moon shines
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| sobre la parrilla,
| on the grill,
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| come luna y pan de hollín…
| eat moon and soot bread…
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| Cada día en su tristeza
| Every day in your sadness
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| que no quiere amanecer,
| who does not want dawn,
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| lo madruga un seis de enero
| he gets up early on the sixth of January
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| con la estrella del revés;
| with the star upside down;
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| y tres reyes gatos
| and three cat kings
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| roban sus zapatos,
| They steal your shoes
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| uno izquierdo y el otro… también!
| one left and the other… too!
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| Chiquilín,
| little boy,
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| dame un ramo de voz,
| give me a bouquet of voice,
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| así salgo a vender
| so I go out to sell
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| mis vergüenzas en flor.
| my embarrassments in bloom.
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| Baleáme con tres rosas
| Shoot me with three roses
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| que duelan a cuenta
| that hurt on account
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| del hambre que no te entendí,
| of the hunger that I did not understand you,
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| Chiquilín…
| Little boy…
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| Cuando el sol pone a los pibes
| When the sun sets the kids
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| delantales de aprender,
| learning aprons,
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| el aprende cuanto cero
| he learns how much zero
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| le quedaba por saber;
| it remained for him to know;
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| y a su madre mira,
| and his mother looks at him,
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| yira que te yira,
| yira que te yira,
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| pero no la quiere ver…
| but he doesn't want to see her...
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| Cada aurora, en la basura,
| Every dawn, in the garbage,
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| con un pan y un tallarín,
| with a bread and a noodle,
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| se fabrica un barrilete
| a kite is made
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| para irse… y sigue aquí!
| to go… and still here!
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| Es un hombre extraño,
| He is a strange man
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| — niño de mil años —
| — thousand-year-old boy —
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| que por dentro le enreda el piolín…
| that inside he gets tangled up by the string…
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| Chiquilín,
| little boy,
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| dame un ramo de voz,
| give me a bouquet of voice,
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| así salgo a vender
| so I go out to sell
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| mis vergüenzas en flor.
| my embarrassments in bloom.
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| Baleáme con tres rosas
| Shoot me with three roses
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| que duelan a cuenta
| that hurt on account
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| del hambre que no te entendí,
| of the hunger that I did not understand you,
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| Chiquilín… | Little boy… |