Chords
Deportee

Key: D

Introduction:

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                          D                                                            G                            D  
          The crops are all in and the peaches are rotting,
                                                                                                  G                    D  
          the oranges are packed in their creosote dumps.
                                  G                                                         D            Bm  
          They're flying 'me back to the Mexico border,
                     D                              Bm                 G                         D  
          to pay all your money to wade back again.
                     D                                                            G                         D  
          My father's own father, he waded that river,
                                                                                     G                         D  
          they took all the money he made in his life.
                        G                                                              D                         Bm  
          My brothers and sisters came workin' the fruit trees,
             D                              Bm                                         G                                 D  
        they rode the trucks 'till they laid down and died.
             G                                                 D  
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita,
        A                                            D              D7  
adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria.
             G                                                                    D                              Bm  
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane,
          D                                 Bm                              G                      D  
and all they will call you will be "deportees."
             D                                                              G                         D  
        Some of us are eager, and others not wanted,
                                                                                        G                         D  
        a work contract's out, he he has to move on.
             G                                                              D              Bm  
          Six hundred miles to the Mexico border,
                             D                              Bm                                    G                                 D  
          they chased us like outlaws, like wrestlers and thieves.
                     D                                                                    G                            D  
          We died in your hills and we died on your deserts,
                                                                                        G                                 D  
          we died in your valleys, we died on your plains.
                                G                                                         D                            Bm  
          We died in your trees and we died in your bushes,
                          D                         Bm                    G                                 D  
        both sides of the river we died just the same.
                          D                                                              G                      D  
          The skyplane caught fire over Los Gatos Canyon,
                                                                                                     G                            D  
          a fireball of lightnin' an' it shook all the hills.
             G                                                                                 D                                 Bm  
          Who are these comrades, they're dying like the dry leaves?
                        D            Bm                                      G                      D  
          The radio    says, "They are just deportees."
                        D                                                            G                              D  
          Is this the best way we can grow our big orchards?
                                                                                          G                                 D  
          Is this the best way we can grow our good fruit?
                     G                                                                         D                         Bm  
          To fall like the dry leaves and rot on your topsoil,
                     D                         Bm                         G                         D  
          and be known by no name except "deportees."