Deportee
Woody Guthrie

    C                        F           C
The crops are all in and the peaches are rotting
                              G      C
The oranges piled in their creosote dumps
        F                       C
You're flying them back to the Mexican border
                          G          C
To pay all their money to wade back again

CHORUS
    F                    C
Goodbye to my Juan, good-bye Rosalita
   G                  C
Adios mes amigos, Jesus and Maria
    F                              C
You won't have your names when you ride the big airplane
                            G        C
All they will call you will be deportee

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

REPEAT CHORUS

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Some of us are illegal and some are not wanted
                               G           C
Our work contracts out and we have to move on
    F                       C
Six hundred miles to that Mexican border
                                  G              C
They chase us like outlaws, like rustlers, like thieves

REPEAT CHORUS

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

REPEAT CHORUS

     C                         F          C
The sky plane caught fire over Los Gatos canyon
                              G            C
A fireball of lightning, and shook all our hills
     F                          C
Who are all these friends, all scattered like dry leaves?
                         G         C
The radio says they are just deportees

REPEAT CHORUS

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

CHORUS
    F                    C
Goodbye to my Juan, good-bye Rosalita
   G                  C
Adios mes amigos, Jesus and Maria
    F                              C
You won't have your names when you ride the big airplane
                            G        C
All they will call you will be deportee
