Porteña Linda

Porteña Linda (Beautiful Girl from Buenos Aires)

Music: Edgardo Donato
Lyrics: Horacio Sanguinetti
Translation: Felipe & Ayano
Recorded by Edgardo Donato with Horacio Lagos in 1940

Buenos Aires tiene
De noche y de día,
Mujeres tan lindas
Que no las cambiaría.

Sin hablar de más
Ni despreciar a las inglesas,
Y sin humillar y sin desdén
Por las francesas.

Buenos Aires tiene
Mujeres tan lindas,
Que uno ya pierde la razón
Y da el corazón.

Hoy el canyengue
De esta milonga,

(Instrumental)

Porteña linda
No hay quién te pise el poncho,
Ayer creí que por Maipú y Tucumán
Iba a morir de amor.

(Instrumental)

Buenos Aires has—
By night and by day—
Women so beautiful
That I wouldn't trade them.

Without saying too much,
Nor disparaging the Englishwomen,
And without causing offense nor disdain
To the Frenchwomen.

Buenos Aires has
Women so beautiful
That a man loses his mind
And gives away his heart.

Today, the canyengue
Of this milonga...

(Instrumental)

Beautiful Porteña,
There is no one who can step on your poncho;
Yesterday, I thought that along Maipú and Tucumán,
I was going to die of love.

(Instrumental)

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