Letra de Pascual Contursi / Enrique Maroni
Música de Gerardo Hernán Matos Rodríguez
Compuesto en 1924
If you knew, that still deep in my soul
I keep that affection
that I had for you…
Who knows if you could know
that I have never forgotten you,
going back into your past,
you will remember me…
My friends no longer come
not even to visit me,
nobody wants to console me
in my afliction…
Since the day that you left,
I feel anguish in my chest,
say, woman, what have you done
with my poor heart?
However, I always remember you
with the saintly affection
that I had for you.
And you are everywhere,
piece of my life,
and those eyes that were my joy
I look for them everywhere
and I can’t find them.
To the abandoned pad
not even the morning sun
peeks through the window
like when you were here,
and that friendly puppy
who because of your absence did not eat,
when it saw me all alone, the other day
it also left me.