Cravo e Canela

Wikipedia and Rolling Stone Brasil credit Milton Nascimento and Ronaldo Bastos, though streaming listings credit Milton and Lô. Milton and Lô sing it together, and Lô plays the surdo with Beto Guedes on percussion. It is dedicated to the actress Dina Sfat and was written for the 1970 film Os Deuses e os Mortos but not used on its soundtrack. Portuguese Wikipedia describes it as a samba em três, a samba in three, that moves the congada of Minas Gerais into a Rio samba rhythm, unlike the earlier instrumental version, Paulo Moura's "Fibra" (1971).

Tortoise and Bonnie Prince Billy opened The Brave and the Bold (2006) with it; The A.V. Club's Noel Murray gave that album a B-plus and called it a frenzied take on Milton Nascimento's song. Aquarium Drunkard posted a Milton and Bonnie Prince Billy pairing of it on December 8, 2010. Flora Purim has sung it with Milton at Montreux, in a year we could not establish. A 2025 ANPPOM congress paper analyzes its samba and congado identity, but we could not read it. We found no chart, video or setlist data.