Deportee chords by
Roger Salloom
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Key: G major

Intro 1

Verse 1
D D 
 
G G 
 
The crops are all in,
peaches are rotting,
oranges piled high
D D 
 
in their creosote dumps.
C C 
 
They're flyin' us back to
G G 
 
the Mexican border
D D 
 
Pay all our money just to
G G 
 
wait back again
Em Em 
 
G G 
 
Some of us are illegal,
D D 
 
some not wanted
G G 
 
D D 
 
G G 
 
D D 
 
Contracts out, we have to move on
C C 
 
Six hundred miles to the
G G 
 
Em Em 
 
Mexican border
G G 
 
Chases like outlaws,
D D 
 
G G 
 
thieves on the run
C C 
 
Goodbye to my Juan,
G G 
 
D D 
 
goodbye Rosalina
G G 
 
Adios mi amigos, Jesus and Maria
C C 
 
You won't have a name
G G 
 
Em Em 
 
when you ride the big air plane
G G 
 
D D 
 
G G 
 
All they will call you, Deep Deportee
D D 
 
G G 
 
Skyplane caught fire o
'er Los Gatos Canyon
D D 
 
Fireball of lightning that shook all the hills
C C 
 
Who are these friends now
G G 
 
Em Em 
 
scattered like dry leaves?
G G 
 
D D 
 
The radio says they're
G G 
 
just deportees
We died in your hills,
D D 
 
G G 
 
we died in your deserts
D D 
 
G G 
 
We died in your valleys
D D 
 
and died on your plains
C C 
 
We died neath your trees,
G G 
 
Em Em 
 
died in your bushes
G G 
 
Both sides of the river,
D D 
 
G G 
 
we died just the same
C C 
 
Goodbye to my Juan,
G G 
 
D D 
 
goodbye Rosalita
G G 
 
D D 
 
G G 
 
Adios mi amigos, Jesus and Maria
C C 
 
You won't have a name
G G 
 
Em Em 
 
when you ride the big air plane
G G 
 
D D 
 
G G 
 
All they will call you will be deportee
C C 
 
G G 
 
D D 
 
G G 
 
C C 
 
G G 
 
Em Em 
 
G G 
 
D D 
 
G G 
 
D D 
 
G G 
 
D D 
 
Is this the best way
G G 
 
we can grow our big orchards?
Is this the best way
D D 
 
we can grow our good fruit?
C C 
 
To fall like dry leaves and
G G 
 
Em Em 
 
rot on the topsoil
G G 
 
D D 
 
And be called by no name
except deportees
G G 
 
The rustlers broke in
at the dead hour of night
D D 
 
G G 
 
D D 
 
She rose from her blanket
G G 
 
C C 
 
D D 
 
with a gun in each hand
C C 
 
G G 
 
Em Em 
 
She said, on out, all of you cow boys
G G 
 
D D 
 
Come on out and fight for
G G 
 
Em Em 
 
G G 
 
your land
C C 
 
Goodbye to my one and
G G 
 
goodbye Rosalina
D D 
 
G G 
 
Adios mi amigos, Jesus and Maria
C C 
 
You won't have a name
G G 
 
Em Em 
 
when you ride the big air plane
G G 
 
D D 
 
G G 
 
All they will call you will be deportee
D D 
 
All they will call you will be deportee

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TunerE A D G B E

ChordsD C G Em

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