La milonga perdida [English translation]

The milonga got lost

They can't find it

Some say they saw it

Near to San Nicolas.

Gorosito the herdsman

Southern of the Puan 1 side

Asserts that he saw it

By the shore of the sea.

And goes over there what says

Mr Gabino, the foreman

That he felt it very grumbling

There by the Paternal 2

The milonga got lost

They can't find it.

There's always who affirms

He heard it in a hallway

In the lips of a brunette

Decoration of loneliness.

The air of milonga

One doesn't lose it like that

While there's a guitar

Of Argentina or Uruguayan

Maybe it has changed a little

But is the same one,

Darkened in the pampa

Outdated in the city.

The milonga got lost

They can't find it.

1. a town in the province of Buenos Aires2. A neighbourhood of Buenos Aires

• Artist:Atahualpa Yupanqui