Take It Easy My Brother Charles

The song that opens the second side of the 1969 album is short, swinging and bilingual, its title line sung in English over Trio Mocotó's percussion and Briamonte's strings. It speaks to the same Charles who appears in the album's closing song, Charles, Anjo 45, and with Descobri que Eu Sou um Anjo it forms a little cycle about an angel figure that runs through Ben's work of the period. Who Charles really was is disputed: the most cited account makes him a friend of Ben's who ran a numbers-game spot and went to prison, while some writers have linked the angel songs to the fugitive sailor and guerrilla Avelino Capitani. Rolling Stone Brasil heard the song as the start of Ben's esoteric phase.

Philips put it out as a single in 1970 with Charles, Anjo 45 on the reverse. The rap-rock band O Rappa covered it on their 1994 debut. On stage Ben has usually folded it into a medley with Zumbi and Bebete Vãobora.