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Singer: Anibal TROILOSinger 2: Jorge CasalComposer: Aníbal TroiloAuthor: Cátulo Castillo

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Lyrics
Está mirando el cielo desolado
tu historia de ladrillos y portón,
el corazón sencillo, lastimado,
con un perfil de tango y corralón...
Tal vez con tu dolor arrinconado
te vio en la calle vieja el paredón
y estás en esa esquina del pasado
al lado de la ochava y del buzón.

Patio mío...
donde mama me cebaba
y el tano recio trenzaba
cada noche un desafío...
Patio mío,
de la ropita colgada,
de la barra que silbaba
y el zabalaje bravío.
Patio mío...
borracho de caña fuerte
yo sé que un día te irás...
Pero venciendo a la suerte
te iré a buscar a la muerte
para no dejarte más...

Te añoran los compadres, faja y lengue.
Te llora el payador sentimental...
Tanguea entre las sombras su canyengue
la pálida pollera de percal...
Malevo que en la esquina malherido
desangra entre ladrillos un malvón.
Para salvarte, patio, del olvido
te reza su responso un bandoneón.
English translation
It's looking at the desolate sky
your history of bricks and gate,
the simple, wounded heart,
with a profile of tango and corralón...
Perhaps with your pain in a corner
the wall saw you in the old street
and you are in that corner of the past
next to the ochava and the mailbox.

My courtyard...
where mom used to feed me
and the tough tano braided
every night a challenge...
My backyard,
of the hanging clothes,
of the whistling bar
and the brave zabalaje.
My yard...
drunk with strong cane
I know that one day you will leave...
But overcoming luck
I'll go to look for you in death
to never leave you again...

The compadres long for you, faja and lengue.
The sentimental payador cries for you...
Tanguea between the shadows his canyengue
the pale percale skirt...
Malevo that in the corner badly wounded
bleeds among bricks a malvón.
To save you, patio, from oblivion
a bandoneon recites its response to you.

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