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