Simplemente

Still on the topic of piropos, here are Majo Martirena and Rocio Lequio dancing to Maia Castro's modern tango, 'Simplemente'.  

I have long been "off" dancing "in a tango dance style" to non-tango, to new versions of classic tango recordings and even to modern tango. But after listening to this song many times I began to think not just that I liked it but to wonder if I might dance it, if I heard it in a milonga.   Best of all is the emerging sense of freedom that comes with that feeling.

Simplemente camino, por esta cuadra
No me importa que pensas
Sobre mi forma de andar
Si el jean me queda bien
O es muy corta la falda
Si yo no soy tu mama
porque ‘mamita’ me gritas

Yo no soy tu mina, ni tu nena, ni tu amante
Solo soy una mujer que camina por la calle

Si hace frio o calor
Si vas tapada hasta la frente
De bufanda, saco largo,
Pasamontanas escarbadientes
Igual se puede escuchar
‘Que divina que estas’
Yo no se si no ven bien
Pues que lo mismo le da

Ella no es tu mina, ni tu nena, ni tu amante
Solo es una mujer que camina por la calle

Yo te quiero preguntar
Que podria pasar
Si esto fuera al revez
Ponete a nuestro lugar

Ella no es tu mina, ni tu nena, ni tu amante
Solo es una mujer que camina por la calle

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Simply

I am simply walking down this block
I don’t care what you think
About the way I walk
If the jeans I am wearing look good
Or the skirt is too short
I am not your mother
so why do you shout ‘mummy’

I am not your woman, nor your baby nor your lover
I am only a woman, who walks down the street

Whether it’s cold or hot
Whether you are covered up to the forehead
With a scarf or large coat
And with a balaclava
You can still hear
‘how divine you are’
I don't know if they don't see well
But it's all the same to her

She is not your woman, nor your baby nor your lover
She is only a woman, who walks down the street

I want to ask you
What would happen
If it was the other way around
Put yourself in our shoes

She is not your woman, nor your baby nor your lover
She is only a woman, who walks down the street

Many thanks to the friends and strangers for letting me know about the song, for the lyrics and the translations.