Deportee chords by Odetta

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Verse 1
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Goodbye, my one, goodbye, Rosalita,
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adios, mis amigos, Jesus and Maria.
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You won't have a name
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when you ride the big aeroplane
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All they will call you will be deportee
His father's own father
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waded the river
They took all of the money
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he'd made in his life
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His brothers and sisters came a
-workin' the fruit trees.
They rode in the truck
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till they took sick and died.
Now some were illegal,
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Some were not wanted,
their work was done,
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and they had to move on.
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Six hundred miles to the
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Mexican border,
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chased as if they were outlaws
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Goodbye my one, goodbye
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Rosalita, adios mis amigos, Jesus and Maria,
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it won't have a name
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When you ride the big aeroplane
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All they will call you will be deportee
They died in our hills
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They died in our deserts
They died in our valleys,
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they died on our plains
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They died beneath our trees,
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and they died in our bushes
Both sides of the river,
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they died just the same
The sky plane caught fire
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over Los Gatos Canyon
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A fireball of lightning shook all our hills
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Who are these friends
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all scattered like dry leaves?
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The radio said they were just deportees
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Goodbye my one, goodbye Rosalita
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Adios mis amigos, Jesus and Maria
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You won't have a name
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when you ride the big airplane
All they will call you will be
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Deportee
Is this the best way
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we grow our big orchids?
Is this the best way
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we grow our good fruits?
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To fall like dry leaves, to rot on our topsoil
And be known by no name
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except deportees
The crops are all in,
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the peaches are rotting
The oranges burned in their
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creole salt dumps
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We flew them back to the Mexican border
No money is needed,
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they'll never wade back
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Goodbye my Juan, goodbye Rosalita