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Singer: Ada FALCONSinger 2: Dir. Francisco CanaroComposer: Ada FalcónAuthor: Ada Falcón

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Lyrics
Ayer cuando el dolor, tu puerta fue a golpear
Y el mundo, sin cesar, da espalda a tu clamor,
Mi mano yo te di y el gesto fraternal
Abrigo, techo y pan contigo compartí.
Del brazo te llevé y fui tu salvación
Porque en tu corazón se ahogaba ya la fe,
Y en medio del dolor, de tanta adversidad
Te supo reanimar, mi amor.
 
Tus lágrimas sequé y abrí mi corazón
Y mi cariño fue, tu redención.
Hoy te vas al calor de otros brazos
Y sin pena me das esquinazo,
Olvidando que ayer, en tu cruel padecer
Puse el dulce consuelo, de mi querer.
Para siempre te cierro mi puerta
Nuestra historia será cosa muerta,
Pero tu ingratitud, es pecado mortal
Y tendrás que pagarlo al final.
 
Las manos que hoy te dan, el oro y el placer
Mañana buscarán algún otro querer,
Y entonces, como ayer, un viento torcedor
Te empujará otra vez, al llanto y al dolor.
Entonces me dirás, tu ingratitud de hoy
Entonces sí sabrás, lo buena que yo soy,
Fantasmas de traición, tu lecho rondará
Y en vano implorarás, perdón.
English translation
Yesterday when pain, your door came knocking
And the world, unceasingly, turns its back on your cry,
My hand I gave you and the fraternal gesture
Shelter, roof and bread I shared with you.
I took you by the arm and was your salvation
Because in your heart your faith was already drowning,
And in the midst of pain, of so much adversity.
My love knew how to revive you.
 
I dried your tears and I opened my heart
And my affection was your redemption.
Today you go to the warmth of other arms
And without sorrow you give me the slip,
Forgetting that yesterday, in your cruel suffering
I put the sweet consolation of my love.
Forever I close my door to you
Our history will be a dead thing,
But your ingratitude is a mortal sin
And you will have to pay for it in the end.
 
The hands that today give you, gold and pleasure
Tomorrow will seek some other want,
And then, like yesterday, a twisting wind
Will push you again, to weeping and pain.
Then you'll tell me, your ingratitude of today
Then you will know, how good I am,
Ghosts of betrayal, your bed will haunt.
And in vain you'll beg for forgiveness.

The Cabeceo