“Que me quiten lo bailao” by Ricardo Tanturi y su Orquesta Típica with Alberto Castillo in vocals, 1943 (English translation).
“Try to get the dance out of me”
Open hand with men, and rightful in any situation,
I have two brave passions: the gamble and the liquor …
I’m a dancer of the good school, there is no milonga where I am out of place.
Sometimes I’m penniless and other times I’m like a lord.
What do you want me to do, brother? If it is a gift from fate!
If the desire to save money has never been my virtue!
I am electrified by bubbles and feminine eyes
Since those sweet days of my joyous youth!
But i don’t regret
of those beautiful moments
that I fully committed myself in life.
I had everything I wanted …
and even what I didn’t want
the fact is that I enjoyed it.
My conduct was serene,
I was lavish in the good
and in the bad I cringed.
I was a tycoon and a tramp
and today I know the world so well
that I prefer to be like this.
What do you want me to do, brother, if I was born to die poor,
with a tango between the lips and in a card game entangled.
I play, sing, drink, laugh … and although I don’t have a copper left,
when the last hour rang … get the dance out of me!
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