Key: C
Introduction: C
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
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To take all their money to wade back again.
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,
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All they will call you will be "deportees."
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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,
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They rode the big trucks 'till they laid down and died.
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 C4 C
All they will call you will be "deportees."
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?
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The radio tells me, "They're just deportees."
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,
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Both sides of the river we died just the same.
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 C4 C
All they will call you will be "deportees."
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
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And be known by no name except "deportee."
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 C4 C
All they will call you will be "deportees."
C F C C4 C
All they will call you will be "deportees."