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Deportee

By: Woody Guthrie and Martin Hoffman [1] [2]
Performed: Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie, The Highwaymen
D G D
The crops are all in and the peaches are rotting
D A7 D
The oranges are piled in their creosote dumps
G D
You're flying them back to the Mexican border
D A7 D
To pay all their money, to wade back again
 
D G D
My father's own father, he waded that river
D A7 D
They took all the money he made in his life
G D D
My brothers and sisters come working the fruit trees
D A7 D
And they rode the truck till they took down and died
 
G D A7 D
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita, adiós mi amigo, Jesus y Maria
G D A7 D
You won't have your names when you ride the big airplane, all they will call you will be "deportee"
 
D G D
Some of us are illegal and others not wanted
D A7 D
Our work contracts out and we have to move on
G D
Six hundred miles to the Mexican border
D D A7 D
They chase us like outlaws, like rustlers, like thieves
 
D G D
We died in your hills, we died in your deserts
D 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
D D A7 D
Both sides of the river, we died just the same
 
 
D G D
The sky plane caught fire over Los Gatos canyon
D A7 D
A fireball of thunder, it shook all the hills
G D
Who are all of these dear friends, scattered like dry leaves?
D A7 D
The radio said "they were just deportees"
 
D G D
Is this the best way we can grow our big orchards?
D A7 D
Is this the best way we can grow our good fruit?
G D
To fall like like dry leaves, to rot on my topsoil
D A7 D
And to be called no name, except "deportee"
 
 
G D A7 D
Adiós a mi Juan, adiós Rosalita, adiós mi amigo, Jesós y Maria
G D A7 D
No tendrá un nombre en el aeroplano, solo te van a poner "Deportee"

Created 2009 Sep 15 13:45

This is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the song. You may only use this for private study, scholarship, or research.

tahi Page last modified on 2015 Jun 15 20:16

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