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Transcription: Warren Edwardes (c) 2018-11-23
Translation: Warren Edwardes (c) 2018-11-23
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Note that many tango lyrics published on the internet are the officially submitted lyrics and not what was actually sung at the time of recording. These vary from recording to recording.
These are my own transcriptions and translations.
"La Melodía del Corazón"
Orquesta Edgardo Donato c. Romeo Gavioli
Recorded on 1940-04-30
Music: Fioravante Di Cicco y Héctor María Artola
Lyrics: Carmelo Santiago
"La Melodía del corazón"
"La Melodía del corazón"
Mil amores tuve yo
Y en ninguno yo encontraba
La dulzura que soñé
Ya que en cambio sólo hallé
La falsía despreciable
Que mi alma endureció.
A la vida retorné
Cuando tu carita de ángel,
En mi vida se cruzó
Y encauzaste mi existencia,
Por la senda que jamás
Ya dejaré.
Fue que tu amor,
¡Dulzura y fe!
Retrajo a mí, las ansias de vivir
¡En paz con Dios!
Paz que tanto ambicionaba
Sol de afectos que anhelaba,
Y que fue canción triunfal de amor
Que en su esplendor,
toma formas de
Melodía que, mi corazón
Canta feliz.
"Heartfelt Melody" [Literal Translation]
"Heartfelt Melody" [Literal Translation]
A thousand loves I had
And in none of them did I find
The sweetness that I dreamed of
But instead I only found
The despicable falsehood
That my soul hardened.
To life I returned
When your little angel face,
Came into my life
And you channeled my existence,
To the path that never
Will I leave
It was that your love,
Sweetness and faith!
Gave to me, the yearnings to live
In peace with God!
Peace that I so yearned for
Warmth of affection I so longed for,
And it was a triumphant love song
That in its splendour,
takes the form of
A melody that, my heart
Sings joyously.
Notes
Notes
This tango was inspired by Frédéric Chopin's Étude Op. 10 n°3 “Tristesse” in E major. See the original below.
Compare
Chopin 0:30 ++
https://youtu.be/EmQBFLJAIcY?t=30
with
Donato 0:37 ++
Francisco Canaro Y Francisco Amor La Melodía Del Corazón 1940
Lang Lang plays Chopin Etude Op.10 No.3 in E Major at The Berlin Philharmonic.
This is the original Polish version "Zal" sung in 1934 by Janusz Poplawski
Bruno Clair " reviens mon amour " In French
30 May 1939
Giuseppe Di Stefano - Tristezza (Chopin) 1963 In Italian
John McCormack "So Deep The Night"
Original recording 2 May 1940
"In mir klingt ein Lied" in German
Rudolf Schock--Tenor
Werner Eisbrenner--Conductor Orchester Berlin 1957
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