Bob Dylan – Deportee (Guitar)

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[Intro] C [Verse 1]
    C                        F           C
The crops are all in and the peaches are rotting,

    C                           F        C
The oranges are packed in their creosote dumps.

        F                      C
They're flying 'em back to the Mexico border

   C                       F          C     Csus4   C
To take all their money to wade back again.
[Chorus]
    F                   C
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita,

   G7               C
Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria.

    F                          C
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane,

C                           F          C       Csus4  C  Csus4  C Csus4  C
All they will call you will be   "deportees."
[Verse 2]
   C                       F          C
My father's own father, he waded that river.

     C                     F           C
They took all the money he made in his life.

   F                         C
My brothers and sisters came workin' the fruit trees,

     C                              F             C     Csus4   C
They rode the big trucks 'till they laid down and died.
[Chorus]
    F                   C
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita,

   G7               C
Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria.

    F                          C
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane,

C                           F          C       Csus4  C
All they will call you will be   "deportees."
[Verse 3]
    C                         F         C
The skyplane caught fire over Los Gatos Canyon,

  C                            F             C
A fireball of lightnin' an' it shook all the hills.

F                               C
Who are these comrades, they're dying like the dry leaves?

    C                        F         C     Csus4   C
The radio tells me, "They're just deportees."
[verse 4]
   C                         F            C
We died in your hills and we died in your deserts,

   C                        F            C
We died in your valleys, we died in your plains.

   F                             C
We died 'neath your trees and we died 'neath your bushes,

     C                     F             C     Csus4   C
Both sides of the river we died just the same.
[Chorus]
    F                   C
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita,

   G7               C
Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria.

    F                          C
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane,

C                           F          C       Csus4  C
All they will call you will be   "deportees."
[verse 5]
   C                        F            C
Is this the best way we can grow our big orchards?

   C                        F             C
Is this the best way we can grow our good fruit?

   F                           C
To die like the dry leaves and rot on my topsoil

    C                     F          C     Csus4   C
And be known by no name except "deportee."
[Chorus]
    F                   C
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita,

   G7               C
Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria.

    F                          C
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane,

C                           F          C       Csus4  C
All they will call you will be   "deportees."
[Outro]
C                           F          C       Csus4  C
All they will call you will be   "deportees."