Deportee

G                             C  
The crops are all in and the 
          G
peaches are rott'ning,
                              C    
The oranges piled in their creosote
   G
 dumps;
          C                   
They're flying 'em back to the 
  G
Mexican border
                           C       
To pay all their money to wade back
   G
 again

G                           C    
My father's own father, he waded 
       G
that river,
                            C      
They took all the money he made in 
     G
his life;
     C                        G
My brothers and sisters come working
 the fruit trees,
And they rode on the trucks till 
      C              G
they took down and died.


[Chorus]
     C                   G
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye, 
Rosalita,
   D                G
Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria;
     C                             
You won't have your names when you 
 G
ride the big airplane,
                            C 
All they will call you will be 
        G
"deportees"


[Verse 2]
G                            C   
Some of us are illegal, and some 
         G
are not wanted,
                                C  
Our work contract's out and we have
          G
 to move on;
Continúa después del anuncio
 C                         G
Six hundred miles to that Mexican 
border,
They chase us like outlaws, like 
  C              G
rustlers, like thieves.

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


[Chorus]
     C                   G
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye, 
Rosalita,
   D                G
Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria;
     C                             
You won't have your names when you 
 G
ride the big airplane,
                            C 
All they will call you will be 
        G
"deportees"


[Verse 3]
 G                              C 
The sky plane caught fire over Los
        G
 Gatos Canyon,
                               C 
A fireball of lightning, it shook 
          G
all our hills,
     C                        
Who are all these friends, all 
    G
scattered like dry leaves?
                           C  
The radio says, "They are just 
       G
deportees"

G                            C   
Is this the best way we can grow 
           G
our big orchards?
                             C     
Is this the best way we can grow 
         G
our good fruit?
     C                      G
To fall like dry leaves to rot on my
 topsoil
                            C  
And be called by no name except 
         G
"deportees"?


[Chorus]
     C                   G
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye, 
Rosalita,
   D                G
Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria;
     C                             
You won't have your names when you 
 G
ride the big airplane,
                            C 
All they will call you will be 
        G
"deportees"


[Chorus]
     C                   G
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye, 
Rosalita,
   D                G
Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria;
     C                             
You won't have your names when you 
 G
ride the big airplane,
                            C 
All they will call you will be 
        G
"deportees"
                             C     
Yes, all they will call you will be
    G             G       C
 "deportees"