Paroles et traduction Alfredo de Angelis - El Ciruja

El Ciruja

Como con bronca, y junando
De rabo de ojo a un costado,
Sus pasos ha encaminado
Derecho pa'l arrabal.
Lo lleva el presentimiento
De que, en aquel potrerito,
No existe ya el bulincito
Que fue su único ideal.
Recordaba aquellas horas de garufa
Cuando minga de laburo se pasaba,
Meta punga, y al codillo escolaseaba
Y en los burros se ligaba un metejón;
Cuando no era tan junao por los tiras,
La lanceaba sin tener el manyamiento,
Una mina le solfeaba todo el vento
Y jugó con su pasión.
Era un mosaico diquero
Que yugaba de quemera,
Hija de una curandera,
Mechera de profesión;
Pero vivía engrupida
De un cafiolo vidalita
Y le pasaba la guita
Que le shacaba al matón.
Frente a frente, dando muestras de coraje,
Los dos guapos se trenzaron en el bajo,
Y el ciruja, que era listo para el tajo,
Al cafiolo le cobró caro su amor.
Hoy, ya libre'e la gayola y sin la mina,
Campaneando un cacho'e sol en la vedera,
Piensa un rato en el amor de su quemera
Y solloza en su dolor.

The Cutthroat

As if with anger, and sneaking
Out of the corner of his eye,
He has made his way
Straight into the slums.
He follows the hunch
That in that little pasture,
The little dive bar
That was his only dream no longer exists.
He recalled those hours of debauchery
When he would skip work,
Pick pockets, and play the fool,
And have a blast on the horses;
When he wasn't so hunted by the police,
He would break the law without a care in the world,
A girl sang to him all night
And toyed with his emotions.
She was a street-wise hustler
Who played the fortune-teller,
Daughter of a faith healer,
A professional thief;
But she lived under the spell
Of a charming pimp
And gave him the money
That she stole from the thugs.
Face to face, showing courage,
The two tough guys clashed in the alley,
And the cutthroat, who was skilled with a blade,
Made the pimp pay dearly for his love.
Now, free from prison and without the girl,
Sitting in the sun on the sidewalk,
He thinks for a while about the love of his life
And weeps in his pain.