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Cambalache (
Southern Cone The Southern Cone (, ) is a geographical and cultural subregion composed of the southernmost areas of South America, mostly south of the Tropic of Capricorn. Traditionally, it covers Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay, bounded on the west by the Pac ...
Spanish for bazaar or "junkshop") is an
Argentine Argentines, Argentinians or Argentineans are people from Argentina. This connection may be residential, legal, historical, or cultural. For most Argentines, several (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their ...
slang-language
tango Tango is a partner dance and social dance that originated in the 1880s along the Río de la Plata, the natural border between Argentina and Uruguay. The tango was born in the impoverished port areas of these countries from a combination of Arge ...
song written in 1934 by
Enrique Santos Discépolo Enrique Santos Discépolo (''Discepolín'') (11 March 1901 – 27 December 1951) was an Argentine tango (music), tango and Milonga (music), milonga musician and composer, author of famous tangos like ''Cambalache'' and many others performed by s ...
for the movie '' The Soul of the Accordion'', released the following year.Pujol S
Enrique Santos Discépolo
at todotango.com
It is explicitly critical of 20th-century corruption and, having been written during the
Infamous Decade The Infamous Decade () was a period in Argentine history that began with the 1930 coup d'état against President Hipólito Yrigoyen. This decade was marked on one hand by significant rural exodus, with many small rural landowners ruined b ...
, was banned by a succession of dictatorial governments before censorship was relaxed under General
Juan Peron ''Juan'' is a given name, the Spanish and Manx versions of ''John''. The name is of Hebrew origin and has the meaning "God has been gracious." It is very common in Spain and in other Spanish-speaking countries around the world and in the Philipp ...
.Cambalache
at planet-tango.com


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Lyrics in Todotango.
* Lubliner, J

Alternative translation * . {{authority control Tangos Songs in Spanish 1934 songs