Carlos Gardel — Palomita Blanca song lyrics and translation

The page contains the lyrics and English translation of the song "Palomita Blanca" by Carlos Gardel.

Lyrics

Su ausencia esta congoja me dio, y a veces su recuerdo es un bien
Que pronto se me ahoga en dolor… y nada me consuela
De ir siempre más lejos de verme sin ella
Mi paso va adelante y atrás el corazón
El rumbo que me aleja tan cruel, me roba sus caricias de amor
Y sólo el pensamiento la ve, la escucha embelesado
La besa con ansias, la siente a mi lado
Y voy, así soñando, más lejos cada vez…
Blanca palomita que pasás volando rumbo a la casita donde está mi amor
Palomita blanca, para el triste ausente sos como una carta de recordación…
Si la ves a la que adoro, sin decir que lloro, dale alguna idea
De lo muy amargo que es vivir sin ella, que es perder su amante calor…
Sigan adelante, pingos de mi tropa, que de un viento errante somos nubarrón
Y en un mal de ausencia se nos va la vida siempre a la querencia dándole el
adiós…
¡palomita blanca! vuela noche y día de mi nido en busca
Y escribí en el cielo con sereno vuelo: «no te olvida nunca, sólo piensa en vos»
No sabe aquel que nunca dejó su amada a la distancia, el pesar
Que al alma impone un duro rigor, que viene de ladero
Que a ratos la nombra midiendo el sendero
Mirando allá en la sombra los pagos que dejó…
La he visto entre mis brazos llorar la he visto al darme vuelta al partir
Su tibio pañuelo agitar, y luego irse achicando
Su imagen lejana… y en mi alma agrandado
Su encanto… y esta pena de no tenerla más…

Lyrics translation

His absence gave me this grief, and sometimes his memory is a good
That I soon drown in pain ... and nothing comforts me
To go ever farther from seeing me without her
My step goes back and forth the heart
The course that drives me away so cruel, steals his caresses of love
And only the thought sees it, listening to it embellished
He kisses her eagerly, feels her by my side
And I go, so dreaming, farther and farther…
White Dove that you fly to the house where my love is
White dove, for the sad absent you are like a letter of remembrance…
If you see the one I adore, without saying I cry, give him some idea
Of how very bitter it is to live without her, which is to lose her lover warmth…
Keep going, drops of my troop, that from a wandering wind we are cloudless
And in an evil of absence we always go to want life giving him the
Bye…
white dove! fly night and day from my nest in search
And I wrote in the sky with serene flight: "never forget you, only think of you»
Does not know the one who never left his beloved at a distance, regret
That the soul imposes a harsh rigor, which comes from the hillside
Who sometimes names it by measuring the path
Looking out there in the shade the payments he left…
I've seen her in my arms crying I've seen her turn around when I leave
His warm handkerchief shake, and then go shrinking
His distant image ... and in my enlarged soul
Its charm ... and this pity of not having it anymore…