Tomo y obligo [English translation]

I drink and I invite: order a swig,

that today, I must kill the memory;

without a friend, far from home,

I want, into your heart, my sorrow entrust.

Drink with me, and if, while singing,

my voice gets blurred once in a while,

is not that I cry because she deceives me,

I know that a real man shouldn't cry.

If the fields could talk, this Pampa would tell you 1.

how I loved her, how feverishly I adored her,

How many times, shaking, I have fallen on my knees

under the defoliated tree where I kissed her one day.

And, today, to see her degraded, surrendered to other arms,

it was for me like a stub, and the jealous, made me blind.

And I swear to you, I still can't believe

how could I control myself, and I didn't kill her then.

I drink and I invite: order a swig,

about women, better not talk,

all of them, my friend, pay back badly

and, today, my experience can assert it.

Take my advise, don't fall in love,

and if, at a time, it's your turn to fall for it,

strength, confound it, suffer and don't cry,

that a real man should't cry!

• Artist:Carlos Gardel