Corrientes y Esmeralda (part. Roberto Chanel)

The handsome men calmed down
Next to your corners
When an elegant man
Put on his cros
And the tough guys
Gave you shine
Back in the year
Nineteen hundred and two

Buenos Aires corner
You made a school
In a mix
Of cane gin fizz
English walk and monte
Baccarat lottery
Cane curdela
And crazy for prison

The Odeon sends
The royal academy
Bouncing tangos
The Royal Pigalle

And the rest is played
The sorrowful anemia
That waits for the tram
To its suburb

From Esmeralda to the north
Towards Retiro
Momparma comes
At the fall of prayer

It's the little French girl who with a sigh
Sells us the scam
Of her heart

Carlos De La Pua praises you in a poem
And Pascual Contursi
Was your faithful friend
In your Creole corner
Any parrot
Dreams of the look
Of Carlos Gardel