Letra de Alfredo Le Pera
Letra de Carlos Gardel
Música de Alfredo Le Pera
Música de Carlos Gardel
Traducido por Matt Curtis Waldroop
Mary, Peggy, Betty, Susie,
blondies of New York…
Cupcake-sweetie inamoratas,
pretending amor.
They give the stars fits of envy;
I can’t live without them any.
Mary, Peggy, Betty, Susie,
with their lips in flower…
It’s like a crystal,
the crazy laughter of Julie:
It’s like the singing
of a fresh fountain well.
Haunting my dreaming —
the dulcet enchantment of Peggy:
Her glance of azure
ocean-deep does seem!
Delicious these pretty creatures
perfume-scented;
I want kisses from their dainty
lips all painted.
Fragile these dollfaces of oblivion and of pleasure…
laughing out their happiness like a tinkling bell!
Blonde young cocktail intoxicates
‘em —
That way is Mary:
Your hair gorgeous that’s of
platinum,
I want all for me.
If the amor you were to me
offering
only endures a brief day
fleeting…
then the fire of a red-hot brazier:
your passion, Betty!
It’s like a crystal,
the crazy laughter of Julie:
It’s like the singing
of a fresh mountain well.
Haunting my dreaming —
the dulcet enchantment of Peggy:
Her glance of azure
ocean-deep does seem!
Delicious these pretty creatures
perfume-scented;
I want kisses from their dainty
lips all painted.
Fragile these dollfaces of oblivion
and of pleasure…
laughing out their happiness like a
tinkling bell!