Paroles et traduction Carlos Gardel - Malevito

Malevito

Sos el mismo que allá por mi barrio
El botón dos por tres encanó
Porque había dicho el comisario
Que piantaras de aquella sección

Sos el mismo del negro pañuelo
Sos el mismo del saco cortón
El del lustre aceitoso del pelo
Prepotente, haragán y matón

Hoy parás en el Domínguez
Te vestís a la alta escuela
Jugás fuerte a la quiniela
Y hasta el San Carlos te vas

Si calzás una carpeta
Hacés temblar al banquero
¡Parecés el Trust Joyero
Por las joyas que cargás!

Cuando empiece a nevarte en el mate
Y la línea entrés a perder
Si no has hecho como la hormiguita
Malevito, ahí te quiero ver

Sin amor, sin afecto y sin nada
Que en el mundo te haga de puntal
Malevito, tal vez sea esa
La venganza del triste arrabal

Malevito, la vida es carrera larga
Y hay que saberla correr
Malevito, te has gastado en el apronte
Y llevás las de perder

Malevito

You are the same as you were back in my neighborhood
The two-by-three button enchanted
Because the police commissioner had said
That you should flee that section

You are the same one with the black handkerchief
You are the same one with the short jacket
The one with the greasy hair polish
Conceited, lazy, and a bully

Today you live in the Domínguez
You dress in the high school
You play hard at the quiniela
And you even go to the San Carlos

If you wear a folder
You make the banker tremble
You look like the Trust Jeweler
Because of the jewels you carry!

When it starts to snow in the mate
And you start losing the line
If you haven't done like the little ant
Malevito, that's when I want to see you

Without love, without affection, and without anything
That in the world makes you a mainstay
Malevito, maybe that's it
The revenge of the sad slum

Malevito, life is a long race
And you have to know how to run it
Malevito, you've spent yourself on the preparation
And you're going to lose