O Bêbado e a Equilibrista

"O Bêbado e a Equilibrista" ("The Drunk and the Tightrope Walker") is a Portuguese-language song written and composed by Brazilian musicians João Bosco and Aldir Blanc. It was performed by Elis Regina on her 1979 album Essa Mulher. It became a cultural touchstone in the period of amnesty and the decline of the Military Dictatorship in Brazil, and was called the "Amnesty Anthem" (Hino da Anistia). It called for the return of exiles and mourned the deaths of political prisoners, and was an anthem for protestors. It released shortly before the Amnesty Law of 1979, which pardoned the crimes both by the military regime and its opponents, and which allowed exiles to return to the country.