Gilberto Gil composed this song in 1969, during the dictatorship, when the military government decided that he should be expelled from Brazil for considering that his songs had a subversive content. In the lyrics, Gil says goodbye to many things in Rio de Janeiro. From neighborhoods to samba schools, and people.
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