Joan Baez – Deportee Plane Wreck At Los Gatos (Guitar)
Capo 3
Key
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Speed:
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Chords
As recorded by Joan Baez
(From the 1971 Album BLESSED ARE...)
[Intro]
G C G
[Verse 1]
G C G The crops are all in and the peaches are rotting C G The oranges are piled in the creosote dumps C G Em They're flying you back to the Mexican border G C G To pay all your money and wade back again
[Verse 2]
G C G My father's own father, he waded that river C G They took all the money he made in his life C G Em My brothers and sisters came working the fruit trees G C G They rode on their truck till they lay down and die
[Chorus]
C G Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita D7 G G7 Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria C G Em You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane G C G All all they will call you will be deportees
[Verse 3]
G C G Some of us are illegal, and others not wanted C G Our work contract's out and we got to move on C G Em It's six hundred miles to that Mexican border G C G They chase us like outlaws, like rustlers, like thieves
[Verse 4]
G C G We died on your hills and we died on your deserts C G We died in your valleys we died on your plains C G Em We've died 'neath your trees and we've died in your bushes G C G Both sides of that river we've died just the same
[Chorus]
C G Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita D7 G G7 Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria C G Em You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane G C G All all they will call you will be deportees
[Guitar Solo]
G C G
[Verse 5]
G C G The skyplane caught fire over Los Gatos Canyon C G A fireball of lightning, and it shook all our hills C Em Who are these chicanos that scattered like dry leaves G C G The radio tells they're just deportees
[Verse 6]
G C G Is this the best way we can grow our good orchards C G Is this the best way we can grow our good fruit C G Em To fall like dry leaves and rot on the top soil G C G And be called by no name except "deportee"
[Chorus]
C G Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita D7 G G7 Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria C G Em You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane G C G All all they will call you will be deportees
[Outro]
G C G