Deportee

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The crops are all in and the 
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peaches are rotting
The oranges are packed in their 
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creosote dumps
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You're flying them back to the 
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mexican border
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To spend all their money, to wade 
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back again

(chorus)
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Goodbye to my juan, good-bye 
rosalita
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Adios mes amigos, jesus y maria
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You won't have a name when you ride 
the big airplane
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And all they will call you will be 
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deportee

Some of us are illegal, and others 
not wanted
Our work contracts out and we've got
 to move on
Six hundred miles to that mexican 
border
They chase us like outlaws, like 
rustlers, like thieves...  (chorus)

The sky plane caught fire over los 
gatos canyon
A fireball of lightning, that shook 
all our hills
Who are all these friends who are 
scattered like dry leaves?
The radio said they were just 
deportees...  (chorus twice)

(extra verses)
My father's own father, he waded 
that river
They took all the money he made in 
his life
My brothers and sisters come working
 the fruit trees
And they rode the truck till they 
took down and died ...  (chorus)

We died in your hills, we died in 
your deserts
We died in your valleys, and died on
 your plains
We died 'neath your trees, and we 
died in your bushes
Both sides of the river, we died 
just the same...  (chorus)