Pra não dizer que não falei das flores
"Pra não dizer que não falei das flores" (Portuguese for "So that it may not be said that I did not speak of flowers"), also known as "Caminhando" (Portuguese for "Walking"), is a song composed by Geraldo Vandré that ranked second on the Festival Internacional da Canção in 1968[1]. Afterwards, due to the song's critical tone toward the dictatorship, public playing of the song was forbidden by the brazilian military dictatorship[1].
The melody has a hymn and march rhythm, and the lyric, with the verses in an easy rhyme scheme (almost all of them end with the same syllable: "ão"), to aid memorization, was widely played. The first artist ever to sing "Caminhando" after the censorship's ban was lifted was Simone, in 1979, garnering enormous success from both public and critics.
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- ^ a b Ventura, Zuenir (1988). "Que Juventude É Essa?" (in Portuguese). 1968 - o ano que não terminou (3 ed.). São Paulo: Editora Planeta. pp. 182-184. ISBN 978-85-7665-361-5.
