Esta Balada Que Te Dou

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Esta Balada Que Te Dou
Eurovision Song Contest 1983 entry
Country Portugal
Artist(s) Armando António Capelo Dinis da Gama
As Armando Gama
Language Portuguese
Composer(s) Armando António Capelo Dinis da Gama
Lyricist(s) Armando António Capelo Dinis da Gama
Place 13th
Points 33
Lyrics from Diggiloo Thrush

Esta Balada Que Te Dou (English translation: "This Ballad That I Give You") was the Portuguese entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1983, performed in Portuguese by Armando Gama.

The song, as the title suggests, is a piano-driven ballad. Gama describes the end of a relationship, all the while dedicating "this ballad" to his former lover and explaining that there is nothing wrong with being sad.

The song was performed seventeenth on the night (following Israel's Ofra Haza with Khay and preceding Austria's Westend with Hurricane). At the close of voting, it had received 33 points, placing 13th in a field of 20.

It was succeeded as Portuguese representative at the 1984 Contest by Maria Guinot with Silêncio E Tanta Gente.