deportees chords by Paddy Reilly
Verse 1
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I'd like to do a song this time.
Very, very few songs that I do that are not
Irish.
But this one is one of the exceptions,
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one of the few exceptions.
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It's a song written by the late, great
Woody
Guthrie about man's
inhumanity to man.
About the fruit pickers coming from
Mexico to pick the fruit in
California.
It's a beautiful song.
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It's called deportees
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The crops are all in the peaches
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they're gathered
Oranges packed in their
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creosote bins
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They're flying them back to the
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Mexican border
It will take all their money
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to get back again
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So farewell to my friends, goodbye
Rosalita
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Adios mis amigos, you're the same
Maria
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You won't have a name when
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you fly the big aeroplane
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All they will call you will be deportees
The sky plane could fire over
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Los
Gabes
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Canyon
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The fireball lit up, it shook the hills round
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Oh, who are most friends who
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are scattered like dry leaves
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The radio said they were just deportees
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So farewell to my friends, goodbye
Rosalita
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Adios mis amigos, you're the same
Maria
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You won't have a name when
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you fly the big aeroplane
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All they will call you will be deportees
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Is this the best way to till
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our good orchards?
Is this the best way we can
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grow our good fruit?
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To lie on the ground and to
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rot beneath the topsoil
And never know no name
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except deportee
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So farewell to my friends, goodbye
Rosalito
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Adios, mis amigos, you're the same
Maria
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You won't have a name when
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you fly the big airplane
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All they will call you will
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be deportees
Some of us were illegal and
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some were not wanted
Our work contracts finished,
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we've got to move on
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It's six hundred miles to the
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Mexican border
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They chase us like rustlers, like outlaws,
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like thieves
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So farewell to my friends, goodbye
Rosalitas
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Adios, mis amigos
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You're the same,
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You won't have a name
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When you fly the big airplane
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All they will call you
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Will be deportee
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Thank you very much.
deportees
Paddy Reilly
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