Deportee chords by
Arlo Guthrie
Arlo Guthrie
Hoyt Axton
Hoyt Axton

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Key: D major
Verse 1
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The crops are all in,
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the peaches are rotting,
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the oranges are piled
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in their creosote tunnels.
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They're flying you back
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to the Mexican border
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to pay all your money to
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wait back again.
My father's own father
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waded that river
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They took all the money
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that he made in his life
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My brothers and sisters came
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working the fruit trees
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And they rode the trucks
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till they took down and died
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Goodbye to my one goodbye
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Rosalit a, adios,
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mi chanijo, es susi Maria
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You won't have a name
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when you ride the big airplane
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All they will call you will be deportees
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Some of us are illegal
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and others not wanted
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Our contract's out and
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we have to move on
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But it's six hundred miles
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to the Mexican border
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They chase us like outlaws,
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wrestlers and thieves
We've died in your hills
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and we've died in your deserts
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We've died in your valleys
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and died on your plains
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We've died beneath your trees
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and we've died in your bushes
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Both sides of the river are
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just the same
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Goodbye to my one goodbye
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Rosalita, adios, mis amores
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Yesuse Maria
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You won't have a name
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when you ride the big airplane
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All they will call you will be deportees
A skyplane caught fire
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over Los Gatos Canyon
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Like a fireball of lightning
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shook all our hills
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And who are these friends
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all scattered like dry leaves?
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The radio says they're just deportees
Is this the best way
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we can grow our big orchards?
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And is this the best way
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we can grow our good fruit?
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To fall like dried leaves
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and rot on the topsoil
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And be known by no name
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except the 14th
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Goodbye to my one, goodbye
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Rosalita
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Adios, mis amigos, y susi Maria
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You won't have a name
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when you ride the big airplane
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All they will call you will be
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deportees
Outro 1
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