DGD
The crops are all in and the peaches are rotting
(D) A7D
The oranges piled in their creosote dumps
GD
You're flying them back to the Mexican border
(D) A7D
To pay all their money, to wade back again
[Chorus]
GD
Goodbye to my Juan, good-bye Rosalita
A7D
Adios mes amigos, Jesus and Maria
GD
You won't have your names when you ride the big airplane
A7D
All they will call you will be deportee
[Verse 2]
DGD
My Father's own father, he waded that river
A7D
They took all the money he made in his life
GD
My brothers and sisters come working the fruit trees
A7D
And they rode the truck till they took down and died
[Chorus]
GD
Goodbye to my Juan, good-bye Rosalita
A7D
Adios mes amigos, Jesus and Maria
GD
You won't have your names when you ride the big airplane
A7D
All they will call you will be deportee
[Verse 3]
DGD
Some of us are illegal, and some are not wanted
A7D
Our work contracts out and we have to move on
GD
Six hundred miles to that Mexican border
A7D
They chase us like outlaws, like rustlers, like thieves
[Chorus]
GD
Goodbye to my Juan, good-bye Rosalita
A7D
Adios mes amigos, Jesus and Maria
GD
You won't have your names when you ride the big airplane
A7D
All they will call you will be deportee
[Verse 4]
DGD
We died in your hills, we died in your deserts
A7D
We died in your valleys, and died on your plains
GD
We died 'neath your trees, and we died in your bushes
A7D
Both sides of the river, we died just the same
[Chorus]
GD
Goodbye to my Juan, good-bye Rosalita
A7D
Adios mes amigos, Jesus and Maria
GD
You won't have your names when you ride the big airplane
A7D
All they will call you will be deportee
[Verse 5]
DGD
The sky plane caught fire over Los Gatos canyon
A7D
A fireball of lightning, and shook all our hills
GD
Who are all these friends, all scattered like dry leaves?
A7D
The radio says they are just deportees
[Chorus]
GD
Goodbye to my Juan, good-bye Rosalita
A7D
Adios mes amigos, Jesus and Maria
GD
You won't have your names when you ride the big airplane
A7D
All they will call you will be deportee
[Verse 6]
DGD
Is this the best way we can grow our big orchards?
A7D
Is this the best way we can grow our good fruit?
GD
To fall like like dry leaves, to rot on my topsoil
A7D
And to be called no name, except deportee.
[Chorus]
GD
Goodbye to my Juan, good-bye Rosalita
A7D
Adios mes amigos, Jesus and Maria
GD
You won't have your names when you ride the big airplane
A7D
All they will call you will be deportee
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