Cole Porter's "Chiripah" Dance -- from "Okay, Argentina".

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Cole Porter's "CHIRIPAH" dance -- from "Okay, Argentina"

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Cole Porter's "Chiripah" Dance -- from "Okay Argentina" (1934) -- the plot concerns four Argentine polo players in Bridgehampton.

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Cole Porter's "Chiripah" dance -- from "Okay, Argentina" (1934) -- the plot concerns a polo match between Argentina and the United States played in Bridgehampton. The nostalgic gauchos sing a plaintive tune of farewell ("Adios, Argentina") and dance the "Chiripah".

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Cole Porter's Chiripah ("Okay, Argentina")

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Cole Porter's CHIRIPAH

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Cole Porter's CHIRIPAH

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Cole Porter's CHIRIPAH

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Porter's CHIRIPAH

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Cole Porter's CHIRIPAH

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Significado de "chiripá":

chiripá

1. m. amer. Paño rectangular que se pasa por entre los muslos y que se sujeta, por los extremos delantero y trasero, a la cintura con una faja o ceñidor. Lo llevan los gauchos de Argentina, Brasil, Paraguay y Uruguay.

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"chiripá" in "Glosario de términos gauchescos y criollos de Argentina" (A Glossary of Gaucho Terms in Argentina")

Vestimenta del gaucho consistente en un paño a manera de calzones amplios.

"chiripa" en "Glosario de jergas y modismos de Argentina":

(pop.)

 

"paño rectangular que se pasa entre los muslos y se sujeta por sus extremos anterior y posterior a la cintura mediante faja o cinto (TG). Debajo de el chiripa se llevan los calzoncillos largos y sueltos, con flecos o cribados. Usado por el gaucho sustituye en su indumentaria al pantalón/pañal que se pone a los niños en sus primeros años, de forma parecida al chiripá gaucho.

 

A gaucho 'diaper'.

 

 

OKAY ARGENTINA -- The Chiripah Dance -- "The moon looks down on the pampas"

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1934

Cole Porter wrote a second Argentine number for “Adios Argentina”: The Chiripah dance.

Dancing the Chiripah
down at the chacarah
chiripah chacarah chiripah chacarah
life seems so sweet
when you tangle your feet
in that chacarah chiripah chacarah chiripah
once you begin
it gets under your skin
as you trip along
skip along
furiouslee
so come on little girl
and prepare for a whirl
to the chacarah chiripah with me
the chiripah ay ay ay ay what a dance
the chiripah
give it a try if you sigh for romance
the chiripah
drives ev'ry gaucho ga-ga
so one two three
and dance with me
the chiri-piri-pah

Adios Argentina

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1934
Cole Porter writes the score for “Adios Argentina”.

The hit song was the title song.

Cole was hired for his exceptional talent at  writing songs with a South American flavour.

The plot concerns a polo match between Argentina and the United States in Bridgehampton.

As the Argentine polo players leave Buenos Aires they sing a plaintive tune.

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REFRAIN:

ADIOS, MY FAIR ARGENTINA
my Argentina, my joy, my pride
adios my beautiful chena
never again can I ride
by your side
yet tho' no more we may meet
there will ever linger, my sweet
memories of rapture complete
when I held you close
so tho' goodbye
those moments will never die
Argentina, my Argentina
adios.

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VERSE:


The moon looks down on the pampas
and silhouettes two gauchos in its light
while their flashing knives
decide their lives
as they gleam in the dreaming night.
Each moment the battle is more heated
and each second more uncertain the fray
till one falls dead and defeated
and the other slowly walks away.