Deportee

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    The crops are all in and the peaches are rotting,
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    the oranges are packed in their creosote dumps.
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    They're flying 'me back to the Mexico border,
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    to pay all your money to wade back again.

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    My father's own father, he waded that river,
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    they took all the money he made in his life.
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    My brothers and sisters came workin' the fruit trees,
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   they rode the trucks 'till they laid down and died.

     G                   D
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita,
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adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria.
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     G                          D            Bm
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane,
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and all they will call you will be "deportees."

     D                        G          D
   Some of us are eager, and others not wanted,
                                 G          D
   a work contract's out, he he has to move on.
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    Six hundred miles to the Mexico border,
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    they chased us like outlaws, like wrestlers and thieves.

        D                          G           D
    We died in your hills and we died on your deserts,
                                 G             D
    we died in your valleys, we died on your plains.
            G                      D           Bm
    We died in your trees and we died in your bushes,
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   both sides of the river we died just the same.

          D                        G         D
    The skyplane caught fire over Los Gatos Canyon,
                                      G           D
    a fireball of lightnin' an' it shook all the hills.
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    Who are these comrades, they're dying like the dry leaves?
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    The radio  says, "They are just deportees."

         D                       G            D
    Is this the best way we can grow our big orchards?
                                  G             D
    Is this the best way we can grow our good fruit?
        G                            D          Bm
    To fall like the dry leaves and rot on your topsoil,
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    and be known by no name except "deportees."