Deportee chords by
Roger Salloom
Roger Salloom

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