| Campaneá cómo el cotorro va quedando despoblado
| Campaneá how the parrot is becoming depopulated
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| Todo el lujo es la catrera compadreando sin colchón
| All the luxury is the catrera compadreando without a mattress
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| Y mirá este pobre mozo cómo ha perdido el estado
| And look at this poor young man how he has lost his state
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| Amargado, pobre y flaco como perro de botón
| Bitter, poor and skinny as a button dog
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| Poco a poco todo ha ido de cabeza p’al empeño
| Little by little everything has gone from head to end
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| Se dio juego de pileta y hubo que echarse a nadar…
| There was a pool game and we had to go swimming...
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| Sólo vos te vas salvando porque pa' mi sos un sueño
| Only you are saving yourself because for me you are a dream
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| Del que quiera Dios que nunca me vengan a despertar
| The one that God wants that they never come to wake me up
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| Viejo smocking de los tiempos
| old time tuxedo
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| En que yo también tallaba…
| In which I also carved…
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| ¡Cuánta papusa garaba
| How much papusa garaba
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| En tus solapas lloró!
| In your lapels he cried!
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| Solapas que con su brillo
| Lapels that with their shine
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| Parece que encandilaban
| It seems that they dazzled
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| Y que donde iba sentaban
| And that where he went they sat
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| Mi fama de gigoló
| My fame as a gigolo
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| Yo no siento la tristeza de saberme derrotado
| I do not feel the sadness of knowing myself defeated
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| Y no me amarga el recuerdo de mi pasado esplendor;
| And the memory of my past splendor does not make me bitter;
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| No me arrepiento del vento ni los años que he tirado
| I do not regret the event or the years I have wasted
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| Pero lloro al verme solo, sin amigos, sin amor;
| But I cry when I see myself alone, without friends, without love;
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| Sin una mano que venga a llevarme una parada
| Without a hand to come take me to a stop
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| Sin una mujer que alegre el resto de mi vivir…
| Without a woman to cheer up the rest of my life...
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| ¡Vas a ver que un día de éstos te voy a poner de almohada
| You're going to see that one of these days I'm going to put you as a pillow
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| Y, tirao en la catrera, me voy a dejar morir!
| And, thrown in the catrera, I'm going to let myself die!
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| Viejo smocking, cuántas veces
| Old smocking, how many times
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| La milonguera más papa
| The coolest milonguera
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| El brillo de tu solapa
| The shine of your lapel
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| De estuque y carmín manchó
| Stucco and carmine stained
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| Y en mis desplantes de guapo
| And in my handsome rudeness
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| ¡cuántos llantos te mojaron!
| How many tears wet you!
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| ¡cuántos taitas envidiaron
| how many taitas envied
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| Mi fama de gigoló! | My gigolo fame! |