Ay Ines!
La palomilla me cabuleaba recordarás
Cuando pasabas por nuestra esquina con rumbo al pan
Cual tu vestido rojo subido callaba yo
Luego me entraba con tu mirada un mortal temblor
Trágame tierra rogaba bajando la cara ahí
Con los piropos de éstos mis cuates, que va a pensar de mí
Ora me sales con que en verdad te gustaba Juan
De mis amigos puede decirse el más vulgar
Tanta dulzura, tanta finura, querida Inés
Frases pensadas, rimas, tonadas, voz de Gardel
Tanta loción para nada el baúl se tragó el papel
Y ese retrato del día de bodas nos mira envejecer
Ay Inés solo te queda dormir y soñar
Ay Inés y los donjuanes por los zaguanes
Lanzan sus flores a tu costeña manera de andar
Todo a tu paso era ese paso del huracán
Como corría sangre por ser el galán triunfal
Eres mi cielo así me dijiste- el primer amor
Pero era de otro, amor imposible, tu corazón
Tu cabellera ahora recuerda al olor a mar
Sobre la almohada esa palmera presagia un vendaval
Ay Inés solo te queda dormir y soñar
Ay Inés hay un Don Juan asaltando el zaguán
Ay Inés solo te queda dormir y soñar
Ay Inés yo ya no sé si reír o llorar
Ay Inés
Oh Ines!
The little dove was teasing me, you'll remember
When you passed by our corner on your way to buy bread
Your red dress up high, I would fall silent
Then your gaze would give me a mortal tremor
Swallow me earth, I begged, lowering my face there
With the compliments from my buddies, what will she think of me?
Now you come out saying you really liked Juan
Of my friends, the most vulgar can be said
So much sweetness, so much delicacy, dear Ines
Thoughtful phrases, rhymes, tunes, Gardel's voice
So much cologne for nothing, the trunk swallowed the paper
And that wedding day portrait watches us grow old
Oh Ines, all that's left for you is to sleep and dream
Oh Ines, and the playboys in the courtyards
Throw their flowers at your coastal way of walking
Everything in your path was like the step of a hurricane
As blood ran for being the triumphant gallant
You are my sky - you told me - the first love
But it was for another, impossible love, your heart
Your hair now recalls the smell of the sea
On the pillow, that palm tree foretells a storm
Oh Ines, all that's left for you is to sleep and dream
Oh Ines, there's a Don Juan assaulting the courtyard
Oh Ines, all that's left for you is to sleep and dream
Oh Ines, I don't know whether to laugh or cry
Oh Ines