Por Una Cabeza by Carlos Gardel
Por una cabeza is a tango song by Carlos Gardel with lyrics by Alfredo Le Pera. Its title comes from horse racing: winning or losing by a head becomes a metaphor for the narrator's recurring attraction to both the track and romantic desire. Gardel and Le Pera wrote the song for the film Tango Bar in the mid-1930s. The film was released after their deaths in the 24 June 1935 Medellín plane crash, giving the song's original screen context a particularly stark afterlife. A piano arrangement is an instrumental adaptation: no voice sings Gardel's part or Le Pera's Spanish text, though the score may still carry the vocal melody at the keyboard and may print the lyrics. Verify from the selected edition the introduction, dance feel and ending, and whether the vocal line and any printed lyrics are present.
About Por Una Cabeza
Por una cabeza is a tango song by Carlos Gardel with lyrics by Alfredo Le Pera. Its title comes from horse racing: winning or losing by a head becomes a metaphor for the narrator's recurring attraction to both the track and romantic desire.
Gardel and Le Pera wrote the song for the film Tango Bar in the mid-1930s. The film was released after their deaths in the 24 June 1935 Medellín plane crash, giving the song's original screen context a particularly stark afterlife.
A piano arrangement is an instrumental adaptation: no voice sings Gardel's part or Le Pera's Spanish text, though the score may still carry the vocal melody at the keyboard and may print the lyrics. Verify from the selected edition the introduction, dance feel and ending, and whether the vocal line and any printed lyrics are present.