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Singer: Francisco CANAROSinger 2: CharloComposer: Juan de Dios FilibertoAuthor: María Luisa Carnelli

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Lyrics
¡Cierta noche fue
del barrio y de mi hogar!
No quisiera recordar,
por mala estrella me alejé,
firme en el dolor,
me largué a vagar
hacia algún lugar
donde la traición
no pueda herir el corazón.

Al pasar, ¡linyera!, oigo murmurar,
los que son felices como yo no fui
tras de mí sus burlas, suelen arrojar,
tal vez sin advertir
que sobre un dolor
cien más han de abrir.
Siempre voy en pos de vana ilusión,
y al caer la noche túrbame el llorar
soñador de algún lejano acordeón,
que historia en su sonar
mi vida de azar,
mis penas de amor.

Bajo el chaparrón,
caminando sin sentir
se lavará mi corazón
del barro del sufrir.
Esperando un sol
arrastrando voy
de felicidad,
como un caracol,
mi suerte en larga soledad.
English translation
One night it was
from the neighborhood and from my home!
I would not like to remember,
by a bad star I walked away,
firm in pain,
I took off to wander
to some place
where betrayal
cannot wound the heart.

As I pass by, Linyera, I hear murmuring,
those who are happy as I was not
their mockery, they are wont to hurl after me,
perhaps without noticing
that on one pain
a hundred more will open.
I always go in pursuit of vain illusion,
and at nightfall you bring to me the weeping
dreamer of some distant accordion,
that in its sounding history
my life of chance,
my sorrows of love.

Under the downpour,
walking without feeling
my heart will be washed
from the mud of suffering.
Waiting for a sun
dragging I go
of happiness,
like a snail,
my luck in long solitude.

The Cabeceo