Caminhando

"Pra não dizer que não falei das flores" (Portuguese for "Not to say that I haven't spoken about the flowers"), also known as "Caminhando" (Portuguese for "Walking" or "Going forward"), is a song composed by Geraldo Vandré that ranked second on the Festival Internacional da Canção in 1968. Although it was the most applauded song of the night and very well received by the public, the music did not guarantee to Vandré the prize thanks to orders directed the station Rede Globo by the first Army command who condemned the composition because they consider it extremely critical relative to the government, the first place was for the song "Sabiá" (Portuguese for "Thrush") of Tom Jobim and Chico Buarque,the authors ended up being booed for about 23 minutes while the people still followed singing Walking. Considered a violation of the sovereignty of the country and a mockery of the armed forces, public playing of the song was forbidden by the Brazilian military dictatorship the following day along with the edition of AI-5, the composer has become one of the most hunted persons in the country. The general Luís de Oliveira França, Security Secretary, warned that the music would serve as a slogan for the street manifestations hereafter. All the registers of Vandré's presentation at the festival were deleted.

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", sonding like "oun" from the word "sound" and equivalent to "on" from "nation" in English), to aid memorization, was widely played.

The content of the song was seen as an incentive to resistance and the armed struggle thanks to some verses as:

"In schools, on the streets

Fields, buildings

We are all soldiers

Armed or not"

"Certainty in front

History at hand"

"Who knows makes the time

Doesn't wait for it to happen"

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