Deportees chords by Arlo Guthrie
Verse 1
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The crops are all in and the
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peaches are rotting
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The oranges are piled in their
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cresotedumps
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They're flying you back
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to the Mexico border
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To pay all your money to wade back again
Verse 2
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My father's own father,
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he wanted that river
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They took all the money
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he made in his life
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My brothers and sisters come
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working the fruit trees
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And they rode the truck till they
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took down and died
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Verse 3
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Good-bye to to my Juan,
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good-bye Rosalita
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Adios mis amigos, Jesus why Maris
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You won't have a name when
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you ride the big air-plane
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And And all they will call you
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will be deportees.
Verse 4
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Some of us are illega, and others
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not wanted
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Our work contract's out
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and we have to move on
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But it's six hundred miles
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to that Mexican border
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They chase us like outlaws,
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like rustlers, like theives.
Verse 5
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We died in your hills, we died
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in your deserts
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We died in your valleys and died
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on your plains
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We died 'neath your trees
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and we 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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Good-bye to to my
Verse 6
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Juan,
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good-bye Rosalita
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Adios mis amigos, Jesus why Maris
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You won't have a name when
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you ride the big air-plane
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And And all they will call you will
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be deportees.
Verse 7
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A sky plane caught fire over
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Los Gatos canyon
Like a fireball of lightning,
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it shook all our hills
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Who are all these friends,
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all scattered like dry leaves?
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The radio says they are just deportees.
Verse 8
Is this the best way we can
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grow our big orchards?
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Is this the best way we can
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grow our good fruit?
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To fall like dry leaves to
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rot on my topsoil
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And be called by no name
except deportees?
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Deportees
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