Rondando tu esquina (1945)

Pacing Around Your Corner
lyrics by Enrique Cadícamo

Tonight I really want to go looking for her,
to wipe the slate clean and just forgive her.
(Tonight I really want to forget about her,
but still I feel the crazy urge to go looking for her!)*
I’m no longer bothered by what they’ll say,
nor any of things they’ll talk about—
people will always talk anyway.
I think only about her every single hour—
this terrible passion is devouring me!
And as always she doesn’t know,
she doesn’t even suspect
that I desire to return…

What have you done to me, my darling
to make me so sad, day and night?
I’m always pacing around your corner,
I’m always gazing at your house,
and this passion wounds me
and this sorrow will not leave me.
How long must I go on suffering
the torment of your love?

Orquesta Osvaldo Pugliese, singer Roberto Chanel

*Once again, Pugliese and Chanel change whole lines in the song. Their version appears in italics. Vargas sings Cadícamo’s original lines, as can be determined by looking at the sheet music.
(Spanish original after the jump)

Rondando tu esquina

Esta noche tengo ganas de buscarla,
de borrar lo que ha pasado y perdonarla.
(Esta noche tengo ganas de olvidarla,
y sin embargo, ¡qué ansias locas de buscarla!)
Ya no me importa el qué dirán
ni de las cosas que hablarán—
¡total la gente siempre habla!
Yo no pienso más que en ella a toda hora—
¡es terrible esta pasión devoradora!
Y ella siempre sin saber,
sin siquiera sospechar
mis deseos de volver…

¿Qué me has dado, vida mía,
que ando triste noche y día?
Rondando siempre tu esquina,
mirando siempre tu casa,
y esta pasión que lastima,
y este dolor que no pasa.
¿Hasta cuando iré sufriendo
el tormento de tu amor?