Menina do Alto da Serra

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song = "Menina Do Alto Da Serra"


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year = 1971
country = Portugal
artist = Antónia de Jesus Montes Tonicha
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composer = Nuno Nazareth Fernandes
lyricist = José Carlos Ary dos Santos
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place = 9th
points = 83
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lyrics = [http://www.diggiloo.net/?1971pt from Diggiloo Thrush]
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"Menina Do Alto Da Serra" (English translation: "High Ridge Girl") was the Portuguese entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1971, performed in Portuguese by Tonicha.

The song is a ballad, with Tonicha describing a simple country girl. She presents the girl as an ideal to which everyone should aspire in their lives.

The song was performed fifteenth on the night (following the Netherlands' Saskia & Serge with "Tijd" and preceding Yugoslavia's Kruno Slabinac with "Tvoj Dječak Je Tužan"). At the close of voting, it had received 83 points, placing 9th (at the time the best Portuguese result) in a field of 18.

It was succeeded as Portuguese representative at the 1972 Contest by Carlos Mendes with "A Festa Da Vida".