CHIQUILIN DE BACHIN (LITTLE GUY AT BACHINS)
Music by Astor Piazzolla
Lyrics by Horacio Ferrer
Translation by Coby Lubliner
Por las noches, cara sucia de angelito con bluyín, vende rosas en las mesas del boliche de Bachín; si la luna brilla sobre la parrilla, come luna y pan de hollín... Cada día en su tristeza que no quiere amanecer, lo madruga un seis de enero con la estrella del revés; y tres reyes gatos roban sus zapatos, uno izquierdo y el otro... ¡también! Chiquilín dame un ramo de voz así salgo a vender mis vergüenzas en flor... Beleame con tres rosas que duelan a cuenta del hambre que no te entendí, Chiquilín... Cuando el sol pone a los pibes delantales de aprender, él aprende cuánto cero le quedaba por saber; y a su madre mira, yira que te yira, pero no la quiere ver... Cada aurora, en la basura con un pan y un tallarín, se fabrica un barrilete para irse… y sigue aquí! Es un hombre extraño - niño de mil años - que por dentro le enreda el piolín... |
Evenings with his face all dirty, Like an angel in blue jeans, He sells roses at the tables In the diner of Bachins: If the moon is shining On the oven lining, He eats moonlight and burnt beans... Every day that he doesnt want to Wake up cause hes feeling blue, On Epiphany at sunrise With the star not shining through; Three wise cats come rollin And his shoes get stolen, Ones the left one and the other... too! Little guy, Give me bunches of voice So Ill go out to sell All my blooming remorse! Then shoot me with three roses That hurt on account of The hunger I tried to deny, Little guy... When the sun makes all the school kids Wear their aprons in a row, Then he learns how many zeroes There are that he doesnt know; At his mother gawking, Seeing her streetwalking, But he doesnt like the show... Every morning, from the garbage, With a noodle and some bread, He will make himself a kite so He can leave… but then stops dead! Hes a strange and wild man, - Thousand-year-old child man - Whose inside is tangled like a thread... |
Translation © 2004 by Jacob Lubliner
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