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Original lyrics
El tata esta viejo
El tata esta viejo, lo vi la otra noche
Armar su cigarro con dificultad
El pucho encendido temblaba en sus labios
como un tucu tucu en la oscuridad
Ya no se levanta, a matear temprano
No pasa al galope va al trote nomás
Se pasa las horas junto a la tranquera
Mirando al camino pasar y pasar
Recuerdo a mi tata en sus años mozos
Fuerte como un tala como un ñandubay
Hoy parece un sauce ta´todo encorbado
Que pena si un dia me llega a faltar
El tata esta viejo si un dia de irse
Que ni se de cuenta tranquito nomas
Diosito te pido que apagues su vida
Cual se apaga un pucho solo sin pitar
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Diazepan Medina on 2017-10-31
Diazepan Medina on 2017-10-31Translation
The dad is old
The dad is old, I saw him last night
Making his cigarrette with difficulty
The lightened cigarrette trembled in his lips
Like a tuco tuco1 in the dark
He doesn't get up early, to drink mate
He doesn't go galloping, he just trots
He spend the time near the old door
Looking the path going and going
I remember my dad in his young years
Healthy as a tala, as a ñandubay 2
Today he looks like a willow, he's all bent down
What a grief if someday I miss him
The dad is old, if someday he must go
Hope he doesn't realize, just calmly
I ask you God to turn off his life
Like a cigarrette alone without dragging
- 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuco-tuco
- 2. Species of trees
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