| Original disc serial number 18 093 Side A. Duration 01'47″
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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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| Theme: French girl who came from Paris to be abandoned.
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| Che, Francesita Boulevard
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| the fleur de lis has its coat of arms;
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| on wings she came from a chimera,
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| She is French, she is from Paris.
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| With his nervous and fine silhouette
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| with her brilliants and her toilette
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| The girls from Argentina see them
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| and of her they say:! |
| but how good
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| French flower of the boulevard
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| don't be sad you're going to cry
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| and you have to laugh to forget
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| French flower of the boulevard.
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| With her happy old man she dreamed
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| there in a neighborhood close to God
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| but the ingrate that she loved so much
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| he gave another femme his heart
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| from her he left with her and crazy
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| she followed in her footsteps from Paris,
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| but she lost her way and she longed for her life
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| under the nights of this country.
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| French flower of the boulevard
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| don't be sad you're going to cry
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| and you have to laugh to forget
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| French flower of the boulevard. |