¡Viva viernes! (Long live Friday! In other words, TGIF!)
La fecha es el tres (3) de marzo del año dos mil veintitrés. (The date is March 3, 2023.)
To commemorate Uruguay as one of the birthplaces of tango, let’s dance to Donato Racciatti’s Mano a Mano (Hand in Hand) sung by Roberto Líster and Nina Miranda.
This song will help you practice using the verb conjugation for vos (Refer to pages 50 and 54 in You Can Speak Spanish! – Volume 1 for an explanation of vos and its conjugation).
“Hoy tenés el mate lleno de infelices ilusiones” (Today you have your mate full of unhappy dreams).
“Te engrupieron los otarios, las amigas y el gavión” (The naive, the friends, and the hawk cheated you).
“La milonga, entre magnates, con sus locas tentaciones, donde triunfan y claudican milongueras pretensiones, se te ha entrado muy adentro en tu pobre corazón” (The milonga, among barons, with their crazy tentations, where milonga aspirations triumph and give up, has penetrated you to your poor heart).
“Nada debo agradecerte, mano a mano hemos quedado” (Anyway, I should thank you, we have remained hand in hand).
“No me importa lo que has hecho, lo que hacés ni lo que harás…” (It doesn’t matter to me what you’ve done, what you do, nor what you will do).
“Los favores recibidos creo habértelos pagado” (I believe I’ve paid you for the favors received).
“Y, si alguna deuda chica sin querer se me ha olvidado, en la cuenta del otario que tenés se la cargás” (And, if I’ve unknowingly forgotten any small debt, you will take it up on account of the naive).
¡Cantemos y bailemos! (Let’s sing and dance!) Sigamos la letra (Let’s follow the lyrics).
¡Que tengas un viernes venerado! (May you have a venerated Friday!)
L. A. Feliz