Woody Guthrie – Deportee (Guitar)
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[Verse 1]
D G D The crops are all in and the peaches are rotting (D) A7 D The oranges piled in their creosote dung 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, goodbye Rosalita A7 D Adios mis 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, goodbye Rosalita A7 D Adios mis 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 contract's 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, goodbye Rosalita A7 D Adios mis 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, goodbye Rosalita A7 D Adios mis 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, goodbye Rosalita A7 D Adios mis 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 dry leaves, to rot on my topsoil A7 D And to be called no name, except deportee
[Chorus]
G D Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita A7 D Adios mis 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