Qué bien te queda (Cómo has cambiado)
Tango 1944
Música: Vicente Salerno
Letra: Juan Mazaroni
Hermano, te ha vencido el modernismo,
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Brother, modernism has overcome you, your figure of yesteryear changed, too, all that’s left in your melodious rhythm is the past, heart to heart. Now you've moved away from the suburb that saw you under the flickering light of a streetlamp that profiled your fanciful form, dancing in time to the chords of an organito.* How well it suits you, how you’ve changed, and in this elegant setting, you’re going around entangling hearts in the laments of a bandoneón. The astonished skyscrapers see you arrive, dressed in a tux. How well it suits you, Argentine tango, song of the soul, song immortal. |
* organito: A portable barrel-organ that played an important role in the early diffusion of tango. near the turn of the 20th century, the organito carried the early tango of the poor, outlying areas of the city to the streets of the city center. See also "The organito," Cotorrita de la suerte and El cocherito.