Lyrics tango 'Cambalache"

 

Lyrics Tango Cambalache

Enrique Santos Discepolo

 

 

That the world was and will be crap, I already know

 

In 506 and in 2000 too

 

That there have always been jets, Machiavellian and scammers

 

Happy and bitter, values and doubles

 

 

 

But that the twentieth century is a display

 

Of insolent evil, there is no one to deny it

 

We live wallowed in a meringue

 

And in the same mud all groped

 

 

 

Today it turns out that it is the same to be straight as a traitor

 

Ignorant, wise, jet, generous, swindler

 

Everything is the same, nothing is better

 

The same a donkey as a great teacher

 

 

 

There are no postponements, nor rank

 

The immoral have equalized us

 

If one lives in the imposture

 

And another steals in his ambition

 

It doesn't matter if it's a cure

 

Mattress, king of clubs

 

cheeky or stowaway

 

 

 

what a lack of respect

 

What a violation of reason

 

anyone is a sir

 

anyone is a thief

 

Mixed with Stavisky

 

Van Don Bosco and the Mignon

 

Carnera and Napoleon

 

Don Chicho and San Martin

 

 

 

Just like in the disrespectful window

 

of the exchanges

 

Life has been mixed

 

And wounded by a saber without rivets

 

You see the Bible cry against a water heater

 

 

 

Twentieth century, exchange, problematic and feverish

 

The one who doesn't cry, doesn't suck, and the one who doesn't worry is a gil

 

Give it no more, give it go

 

That there in the oven we are going to find

 

Don't think anymore, sit aside

 

That nobody cares if you were born honest

 

What is the same as the one who works

 

 

 

Night and day like an ox

 

That the one who lives from the others

 

That the one who kills or the one who heals

 

Or is he outlaw

 

 

 

We live wallow in a meringue

And in the same mud all groped

 

Written by: Enrique Santos Discépolo.

With affection,

Ruben