Bailarín Compadrito*

Bailarín Compadrito (Braggart Dancer)

Vestido como un dandy,
peinao a la gomina
y dueño de una mina
más linda que una flor,

bailás en la milonga
con aire de importancia,
luciendo tu elegancia
y haciendo exhibición.

Cualquiera iba a decirte,
che, reo de otros días,
que un día llegarías
a rey del cabaret,

que pa’ enseñar tu corte
pondrías academia…
Al taura siempre premia la suerte
que es mujer.

Bailarín compadrito,
que floriaste tu corte primero,
en el viejo bailongo orillero
de Barracas al sur.

Bailarín compadrito,
que querias probar otra vida,
y al lucir tu famosa corrida
te viniste al Maipú.

(Instrumental)

Araca, cuando a veces
oís La Cumparsita
yo sé cómo palpita
tu cuore al recordar

que un día lo bailaste
de lengue y sin un mango
y ahora el mismo tango
bailás hecho un bacán.

Pero algo vos darías
por ser sólo un ratito
el mismo compadrito
del tiempo que se fue,

pues cansa tanta gloria
y un poco triste y viejo
te ves en el espejo
del loco cabaret.

Bailarín compadrito,
que querias probar otra vida,
y al lucir tu famosa corrida
te viniste al Maipú.

Dressed like a dandy,
hair slicked with styling gel
and owning a woman
who is prettier than a flower,

you dance at the milonga
with an air of importance,
shining the elegance
and giving exhibition.

Anyone was going to tell you,
you, rascal of other times,
that one day you would become
a night club king,

that to teach your moves
you would open an academy…
Luck, that is a woman,
always rewards the tough one.

Braggart dancer,
that first showed off your moves,
at the old outskirts public dance
from the south of Barracas.

Braggart dancer,
that wanted to try another life,
and to show off your famous run
you came to the Maipú.

(Instrumental)

Watch it, sometimes when
you hear La Cumparsita
I know how your heart beats
when remembering

that one day you danced it
in shirt sleeves and without a dime
and now you dance the same tango
looking like a wealthy man.

But you’d give anything
for being just for a moment
the same braggart
of a time that went away,

because so much glory is tiresome
and a little sad and old
you see yourself in the mirror
of the crazy night club.

Braggart dancer,
that wanted to try another life,
and to show off your famous run
you came to the Maipú.

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