| Even if it costs my life
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| Franciso Nicholas Pracanico
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| Musician, pianist, director and composer. |
| (May 15, 1898 — December 30
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| of 1971). |
| He was born in San Fernando, a rural population far from Buenos Aires,
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| Around 1898 it was a remote area, a prelude to the Delta. |
| Further north were
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| the Tiger and the river that bore another name. |
| Other few hamlets more or less
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| nearby were San Isidro and San Martín, newly founded and with justices of the peace as
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| representation of the law.
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| Zamba (18) 1924
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| Number of the matrix test of the recording company (2 tests were done on the same
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| day: 2126 and 2126−1). |
| Publication or recording order number of the first
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| title appearance: 213. Sequential recording number: 221
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| Serial number of the original disc 18 104 Side A. Duration 02'28″
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| Gardel accompanied by the guitars of José «the black» Ricardo, «first guitar» who began in 1916; |
| he stayed 13 years with Gardel and
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| abruptly separated from him in May 1929, since he decided to return to
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| Buenos Aires and Guillermo Desiderio Barbieri, the «second guitar», the «Black»
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| Barbieri was the oldest guitarist when the accident occurred in
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| Medellin (where he died). |
| He had joined in 1921, when Gardel was still acting
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| in duet with Razzano. |
| Gardel called him "el Barba", he was discovered in the city
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| of Lincoln, in the province of Buenos Aires, during a tour of the
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| Gardel-Razzano duo through the interior of Argentina.
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| Topic: Request for the one who left to return. |
| Come back to the rosebush in the patio of
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| pity has not given flower. |
| It has a peasant air.
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| Even if it costs my life,
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| I want to see you again
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| Even if it costs my life,
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| I want to see you again;
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| to remember you ill,
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| when you wanted me yesterday;
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| Even if it costs my life
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| I want to see you again.
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| Don't be mean, don't leave me
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| alone with my pain.
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| Don't be mean, don't leave me
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| alone with my pain.
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| And I don't want you to leave me
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| Why don't you come back my love?
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| don't be mean don't leave me
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| alone with my pain.
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| Come back to the rosebush in the patio
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| of pity it has not given flower
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| is that you remember your forgetfulness
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| and dies without your love
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| Come back to the rosebush in the patio
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| out of sorrow it has not given flower. |