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Grândola, Vila Morena
"Grândola, Vila Morena" is a Portuguese song by Zeca Afonso, that tells of the fraternity among the people of Grândola, a town in the Alentejo region of Portugal. The song's title may be translated, "Grândola, Swarthy Town." 
Each quatrain in the song is followed by a quatrain that repeats the same lines in reverse order.
Carnation Revolution.
While Salazar's Estado Novo regime banned a number of Zeca Afonso's songs from being played or broadcast, as
By location Portugal.
The protest songs in Portugal were mostly associated with the antifascist movement and developed chiefly among students and activists. The best known are songs by Paulo de Carvalho and Zeca Afonso, respectively "E Depois do Adeus" (And After the Goodbye) and "Grândola Vila Morena"(Grândola Swarthy Town). They were chosen as a code to start the Carnation Revolution that would successfully triumph against the dictatorial regime. The first was written out of letters that the author, then fighting to maintain the colonies (a war that