Roberto Maida

Milonga brava → English translation

3 translations
English #1
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, #2, Serbian

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Original lyrics

Milonga brava

Yo soy la milonga brava

candombera y entradora

Yo soy la milonga brava

candombera y entradora

Yo soy la expresión sonora

que el progreso deshilacha.

Canción me hizo una muchacha

de boca fresca y golosa.

Y me bailó en la baldosa

quebrada del conventillo

con el mozo del altillo

a quien le dio el corazón.

Translation

The brave Milonga

I am the brave Milonga1

livelily rythmic and charming.

I am the brave Milonga

livelily rythmic and charming.

I am the vibrant expression

which progress wears out.

Song made me a girl

with a fresh mouth and hungry lips

and she danced me on the broken

tiles of the tenement roof

with the young lad living in the attic

to whom she gave her heart.

1. Milonga is an Argentinian dance in 2:4 time, vaguely related to the tango and showing African candombe influence

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Submitted by

michealt on 2016-08-27

Added in reply to request by

Author's comments:

Although Maida seems to sing "bailo" in the 1st line of the 3rd stanza, every source on the web except lyricstranslate.com has "bailó". I've translated asuming "bailó" is correct, (i) because Maida shifts the stress to fit the music in other places (eg he sings "quebrradá" in the next line) so his singing here can't be relied on to distinguish bailó and bailo and (ii) because bailó makes more sense (unless bailarse means "hacer daño" which it does in some places, but not in the Cono Sur which is where I think this song comes from).

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Translations of "Milonga brava"

English Valeriu Raut

English michealt

Serbian malva.rosa.77

Roberto Maida: Top 3

1.	Milonga criolla
2.	Milonga brava
3.	Milonga del corazón

Comments

Sat, 27/08/2016 - 17:05

Hello Tom.
You are right about "bailó".
I have corrected it.
Thank you.

Sat, 03/12/2016 - 13:53

Hi Tom,
Your explanations are always expressive and yet concise, but I am thinking that, in the definition of "milonga" you use the word "candombe" while in the lyrics, (first stanza, fourth verse) you translate "candombera" as "livelily rythmic". Is the word "candombe" common and popularly known in the English language?

And, is "livelily" a Gaelic variation of 'lively'?

Sat, 03/12/2016 - 17:12

I wouldn't say that "candombe" is common and popularly known in English, but certainly it's something people concerned with dance and folklore will have heard of. Acually "candomble" which keeps all the old religious and ritual connotations that have mostly dropped from "candombe" is probably better known. Anyway, it has a page in en.wikipedia.org, so English speakers should be able to find it and understand it without problems.

"livelily" is standard English - the adverb derived from the adjective "lively". The adverb "lively" from the adjective "live" has become obsolete in almost all its senses, livelily having taken them over (perhaps because it was confusing to have an adjective and a noun which were both the same word?). It isn't any sort or Gaelic - the Gaelic for livelily is "gu sgrìdeil" ("gu " prefixed in Gaelic being like "ly" suffixed in English).

Sat, 03/12/2016 - 17:51

I never heard it. I just tried to be funny. It didn't work.
Sorry

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