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Singer: Angel D'AGOSTINOSinger 2: Angel VargasComposer: Mario SotoAuthor: Alfredo Attadía

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Yo fui rey de los salones
en los bailes del pasado
y aunque muchos han copado
no me entrego hasta el final.
Con mis sienes ya plateadas
por el paso de los años,
hago honor a los de antaño
donde me quieran probar.

Hoy...
me luzco compadreando
y ante ninguno me arrolo,
échenme nomás al pollo
que me quiera desbancar.
Que
sabré yo demostrarle
al que en medio se me ponga
lo que es tango y es milonga
cómo se debe bailar.

Soy de la escuela del Mocho
y con él hice capote,
en los tiempos del bigote
y el taquito militar.
No me salgo de la huella
aunque vengan degollando,
porque los estoy sobrando
con mi clase pa’ tanguear.
English translation
I was king of the ballrooms
at the balls of the past
and although many have copied
I do not give myself up to the end.
With my temples already silvered
by the passing of the years
I honor those of yesteryear
where they want to test me.

Today...
I show off my compadreando
and before none of them I kneel,
just throw me to the chicken
who wants to unseat me.
That
I'll know how to show
to the one who gets in my way
what is tango and what is milonga
how to dance.

I am from the Mocho's school
and with him I made capote,
in the times of the moustache
and the military taquito.
I do not leave the track
even if they come slitting my throat,
because I'm surpassing them
with my class to tanguear.

The Cabeceo