Many tango lovers know his name but did you know he worked as a singer and entertainer?
Here is the translation of the lyrics:
I have a bicycle that cost 2,000 pesetas and that runs faster than the train. In the afternoon, I get on it, and lighter than lightning, I go to show off this body along Avenida de Mayo. I usually go to Palermo, very early on Sundays, and many cyclists who are there are fascinated.
The bicycles228 Antología del Tango Rioplatense Vol. are very pretty, and they are ridden by the ladies; by the way, there are a thousand arguments, because they have to wear skirts or pants.The fashionable hats that the ladies wear nowadays are a barbarity. They all have big ribbons, and then a lot of bows, with turkey feathers on top and turkey feathers on the bottom. And the poor guy, who has to be in a theater, if he wants to see the shows, he can take a little nap.
Because there are hats, of some ladies, with lettuces and cabbages, trunks and branches, and with goldfinches and with canaries, with pigeons and parrots and bell towers. The telephone, the microphone, the unrivaled phonograph, the pan-pyrophon, and the new cinematograph, the biographer, the caustrapher, the pajalacaflunchincophone, the chincatapunchincophone, (NOTE: these words have been deliberately made up to highlight his point on the amount of new inventions!!) and the aura made of rice.
All these names and many more are given to the electrical devices that have recently been invented with the idea of making the world go mad.
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