Letra de Enrique Santos Discépolo
Música de Enrique Santos Discépolo
Compuesto en 1927
Traducido por Ramon Penalva
Estrenado por Azucena Maizani. Grabado por Igancio Corsini el
9/5/1928, Carlos Gardel lo grabo el 26/6/1928. Nueva discografia de
Hugo del Carril.
Lonely, ugly and all broken
I saw her this dawn coming out of a nightclub.
Skinny, a full yard long of neck
And a hanger by neckline under the _chin_.
Bowlegged dressed as a broad,
hair-dyed and flirting her nudity
looked like a featherless bantam
mockingly showing off her pecked hide.
I, that know when I am fed up,
Just run away from there trying not to cry.
I recall ten years ago, she was my craze.
I went far as to betrayal for all her beauty.
This, that now is an old wreck, was
my sweet at heart where I lost my dignity.
That crazy about her beauty,
I stole food from my mother,
I was mean and I was base.
I was left without a friend,
I lived a wrong and wicked life.
And she had me on my knees,
With no honor, just a beggar
When she left me.
Never I thought I’d see her in this way,
so cruel and bad as I saw her today
Tell me, shouldn’t I kill myself
thinking that for this old junk
I was left as what I’m now.
Ugly this revenge of time
that lets you see destroyed
the one you loved.
This meeting made me feel so bad
That if I think it through I’ll get poisoned,
this night I’ll drink me out, thoroughly drunk
So I wont think.