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Wednesday, 24 November 2010

Milonga Brava

Can anyone find the lyrics to Milonga Brava? I have searched and failed. I have always been able to hear the first line, "I am the milonga brava, candombe ..." and then a line that sounds something like "I am the sound wave," which would be really good, better than "you are the egg men, we are the egg men, I am the walrus, boop boop be doop!" but I can't make out anything else.

The tune is one of my favourites ever.

7 comments:

  1. 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.

    http://www.abctango.com.ar/letras/letrares.php?titu=880

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  2. Yes, thank you! I love this song too. Another one of my favorites is No Hay Tierra Como La Mía, but unfortunately I haven't been able to find this on CD anywhere :(

    Thanks again!

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  3. My advice to search for the name of the song along with "letras" (the Spanish word for lyrics). :)

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  4. I just searched a bunch of lyrics sites (and google) for the title, but not the site Anon had. It didn't cross my mind to put 'letras' instead of 'lyrics', for some reason!

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  5. Can anyone translate this? I haven't quite managed to make sense of it with my limited spanish and google translate.

    I am the spicy milonga
    candombera y entradora

    I am the sound expression that progress frays.
    Song made me a girl with the fresh and greedy mouth.

    And he/it danced with me in the broken tenement tile with the boy from the attic who was given the heart.

    Something missing I think.

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  6. @ Joy in Motion: You can find Lomuto's version on this cd http://amzn.to/gIpHv4.

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