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Treinta minutos de vida
Moris · 1970 · Track 3
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Moris wrote a song that sounds like a joke laced with venom. Pato trabaja en una carnicería tells the story of a man who presents himself as a supportive guy, almost a neighborhood hero, but deep down is an opportunist who laughs at everyone. There's no moralizing in the lyrics: the narrator exposes him bluntly, as if sharing a rumor in a hushed tone. The song doesn't come across as political criticism or protest, but rather as a personal anecdote that became universal. What's funny — and uncomfortable — is that we all know someone like that, the kind who talks about equality while charging double for a kilo of beef.
He recorded it in 1970, but the album Treinta Minutos de Vida included material from years earlier. Moris had started recording these songs between 1967 and 1968, when Argentine rock was still finding its voice. Producer Jorge Álvarez and Pedro Pujó shaped it in the studio, but the song had already circulated as one of those tunes people hummed in Palermo without quite knowing its origin. Moris himself described it on the back cover of his first LP as an attack on "fake hippies" and bourgeoisie who thought they were revolutionaries. The song doesn't apologize: it laughs at them while cutting up half-carcasses in the butcher shop.