Melodía de Arrabal
Barrio plateado por la luna
Rumores de milonga
Es toda tu fortuna
Hay un fuelle que rezonga
En la cortada mistonga
Mientras que una pebeta
Linda como una flor
Espera coqueta
Bajo la quieta luz de un farol
Barrio, barrio
Que tenés el alma inquieta
De un gorrión sentimental
Penas, ruegos
Es todo el barrio malevo
Melodía de arrabal
Viejo, barrio
Perdona que al evocarte
Se me pianta un lagrimón
Que al rodar en tu empedra'o
Es un beso prolonga'o
Que te da mi corazón
Cuna de tauras y cantores
De broncas y entreveros
De todos mis amores
En tus muros con mi acero
Yo grabe nombres que quiero
Rosa, la milonguita
Era rubia Margot
En la primera cita
La paica Rita
Me dio su amor
Barrio, barrio
Que tenés el alma inquieta
De un gorrión sentimental
Penas, ruegos
Es todo el barrio malevo
Melodía de arrabal
Viejo, barrio
Perdoná si al evocarte
Se me pianta un lagrimón
Que al rodar en tu empedra'o
Es un beso prolonga'o
Que te da mi corazón
Arrabal Melody
Neighborhood bathed by the moon
Rumors of tango
It's all your fortune
There's a bellows that groans
In the mixed street
While a young girl
Pretty as a flower
Coquettishly waits
Under the quiet light of a streetlamp
Neighborhood, neighborhood
You have the restless soul
Of a sentimental sparrow
Sorrows, pleas
It's all the tough neighborhood
Arrabal melody
Old neighborhood
Forgive me for evoking you
A tear escapes me
That as it rolls on your cobblestones
It's a prolonged kiss
Given to you by my heart
Cradle of bulls and singers
Of quarrels and entanglements
Of all my loves
On your walls with my steel
I engraved names I love
Rosa, the little tango dancer
Margot was blonde
On the first date
The paica Rita
Gave me her love
Neighborhood, neighborhood
You have the restless soul
Of a sentimental sparrow
Sorrows, pleas
It's all the tough neighborhood
Arrabal melody
Old neighborhood
Forgive me if evoking you
A tear escapes me
That as it rolls on your cobblestones
It's a prolonged kiss
Given to you by my heart