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