Milonga del consorcio [English translation]

I was born in a tenement house

of the street Olavarria

Then I moved to a condominium

to appear in the phone guide

If you knew, deary me

what a mess is my life

Meetings every day

for hot or cold water

A committee was made

to outcry at the lobby

There's a red carpet

on saturdays and sundays.

The manager is a gringo

who never shows up.

Rubber plants and pots,

popes and hanged clothes,

and a pekinese puppy

barking at the dawn

to the third floor parrot

that whistles some melody

We must rob the doorman

for the grocery man to take part,

the market man, the soda guy

also the dry cleaner

The tubes get broken,

There's dampness on the walls

The heater, the elevator

It's been a month they don't work

And the doorman calls a John Doe

who's a technician in whatever

For appearing in the phone guide

I moved from Olavarria

to a downtown street

I left the old tenement house

I changed balcony for loft

all for looking elegant.

Now you see brother, why

I would return again

to my old tenement house

of the street Olavarria

• Artist:Edmundo Rivero