D G D
The crops are all in and the peaches are rotting
(D) A7 D
The oranges piled in their creosote dumps
G D
You're flying them back to the Mexican border
(D) A7 D
To pay all their money, to wade back again
[Chorus]
G D
Goodbye to my Juan, good-bye Rosalita
A7 D
Adios mes amigos, Jesus and Maria
G D
You won't have your names when you ride the big airplane
A7 D
All they will call you will be deportee
[Verse 2]
D G D
My Father's own father, he waded that river
A7 D
They took all the money he made in his life
G D
My brothers and sisters come working the fruit trees
A7 D
And they rode the truck till they took down and died
[Chorus]
G D
Goodbye to my Juan, good-bye Rosalita
A7 D
Adios mes amigos, Jesus and Maria
G D
You won't have your names when you ride the big airplane
A7 D
All they will call you will be deportee
[Verse 3]
D G D
Some of us are illegal, and some are not wanted
A7 D
Our work contracts out and we have to move on
G D
Six hundred miles to that Mexican border
A7 D
They chase us like outlaws, like rustlers, like thieves
[Chorus]
G D
Goodbye to my Juan, good-bye Rosalita
A7 D
Adios mes amigos, Jesus and Maria
G D
You won't have your names when you ride the big airplane
A7 D
All they will call you will be deportee
[Verse 4]
D G D
We died in your hills, we died in your deserts
A7 D
We died in your valleys, and died on your plains
G D
We died 'neath your trees, and we died in your bushes
A7 D
Both sides of the river, we died just the same
[Chorus]
G D
Goodbye to my Juan, good-bye Rosalita
A7 D
Adios mes amigos, Jesus and Maria
G D
You won't have your names when you ride the big airplane
A7 D
All they will call you will be deportee
[Verse 5]
D G D
The sky plane caught fire over Los Gatos canyon
A7 D
A fireball of lightning, and shook all our hills
G D
Who are all these friends, all scattered like dry leaves?
A7 D
The radio says they are just deportees
[Chorus]
G D
Goodbye to my Juan, good-bye Rosalita
A7 D
Adios mes amigos, Jesus and Maria
G D
You won't have your names when you ride the big airplane
A7 D
All they will call you will be deportee
[Verse 6]
D G D
Is this the best way we can grow our big orchards?
A7 D
Is this the best way we can grow our good fruit?
G D
To fall like like dry leaves, to rot on my topsoil
A7 D
And to be called no name, except deportee.
[Chorus]
G D
Goodbye to my Juan, good-bye Rosalita
A7 D
Adios mes amigos, Jesus and Maria
G D
You won't have your names when you ride the big airplane
A7 D
All they will call you will be deportee
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