This big, dramatic tango arises from a simple, straightforward lyric merged with a driving musical composition. Few tangueros will not have danced it, especially in the Varela-Lesica version, which DJ Michael Shanahan played following the recital by John and Renée at Falucho/Chelsea in Arte Cafe.
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Listen to the Héctor Varela-Rodolfo
Lesica recording here:
Notes
These lyrics express an
unadorned feeling in a romantic situation, with minimal symbolism. The language
is not gender specific, unless faintly, perhaps, in the cross image (although
sung mostly by men in the classical period, Libertad Lemarque did a memorable version
with Juan D’Arienzo). The rhymes are a key part of the aural experience of all
of the recordings, whether or not one understands the Spanish, and I managed to
mirror the pattern in the translation.
—John Osburn
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