Corrientes y Esmeralda (part. Alberto Echagüe)

They calmed down handsome
Next to your corners
When a compadrito
Cross country shoes
And they gave you luster
The brave gangs
Back in the year nine hundred and two

Buenos Aires corner
You made school
In a melange
Of beer and gin fizz
English pass and mount
Baccarat and lottery
Sugarcane curdelas
And crazy about sprit

The Odeon is in charge
The Royal Academy
Bouncing tangos
The Royal Pigalle

And the rest is played
The grieving anemia
The tram is waiting
For his suburb

From Esmeralda to the north
To the Retiro side
Montparnasse is coming
When the prayer falls
It's the French girl
That with a sigh
Dribble the lens
That pulls the button

It is glossed in a poem
Carlos de la Púa
And Pascual Contursi
He was your faithful friend

In your Creole corner
Any cockatoo
Dream about the pint
By Carlos Gardel