http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0LosvoEEy8
La cumparsita The little marching band*
Music: Gerardo Matos Rodrνguez
Lyrics: Pascual Contursi/Enrique Maroni Tr. Jake Spatz
Recited 22 March 2006, Divino Lounge
Si supieras,
que aϊn dentro de mi alma,
conservo aquel cariρo
que tuve para ti...
Quiιn sabe si supieras
que nunca te he olvidado,
volviendo a tu pasado
te acordarαs de mν...
If you just knew
that now as ever within my soul,
I'm holding on to that same affection
I felt for you before...
Who could say if you'd ever know
that I have never forgotten you,
if, turn as you do, back to your past,
you think of me anymore...
Los amigos ya no vienen
ni siquiera a visitarme,
nadie quiere consolarme
en mi aflicciσn...
Desde el dνa que te fuiste
siento angustias en mi pecho,
decν, percanta, Ώquι has hecho
de mi pobre corazσn?
My old buddies no longer come round
never even to pay a visit;
no one even asks me "what is it?"
to soothe me as I pine...
Since the day that you up and left me
anguish moved in my chest and stayed:
tell me, darling, what you have made
of this poor heart of mine?
Sin embargo,
yo siempre te recuerdo
con el cariρo santo
que tuve para ti.
Y estαs en todas partes,
pedazo de mi vida,
y aquellos ojos que fueron mi alegrνa
los busco por todas partes
y no los puedo hallar.
Nevertheless,
evermore I recall you always
with that same divine affection
I had for you before.
And you're with me wherever I go,
you're the meaning of my life,
and those eyes that were all my life's joy,
I try to find them wherever I go
and don't see them anywhere.
Al cotorro abandonado
ya ni el sol de la maρana
asoma por la ventana
como cuando estabas vos,
y aquel perrito compaρero,
que por tu ausencia no comνa,
al verme solo el otro dνa
tambiιn me dejσ...
In our little unkempt apartment,
the morning sun now, it doesn't pass
the same way by the window glass
as when it shone on you;
and that little companion puppy
who's gone hungry since you went away,
eyed me alone the other day
and he, he left me too...