Deportees (Plane Wreck At Los Gatos) chords by Barbara Dane, Lightnin' Hopkins
Verse 1
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Crops are all in
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and the peach trees are rotting
And the oranges are piled
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in the crystal dumps
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Well, you're flying them back
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to the Mexican border
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to pay off their money to
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wait back again.
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Goodbye to you, Juan,
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and goodbye, Rosalita.
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Goodbye, mi amigo, Jesus and Maria.
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You won't have a name
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when you fly the big airplane
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And all they will call you is
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just deportee
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My father's own father,
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he waded that river
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Well, they took all the money
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that he made in his life
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My sisters and brothers came
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workin' the fruit tree
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And they rode in the truck
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till they took down and died
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Good -bye to you home, good -bye
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Rosalita, good -bye mi amigo
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Jesus and Maria.
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You won't have a name
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when you fly the big airplane,
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For all they will call you is just a deportee
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Now some of us are illegal
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and some are not wanted
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Our work contract's out
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and we've got to move on
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600 miles to the Mexican border
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They chase us like outlaws,
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like rustlers, like thieves
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Goodbye to you and goodbye
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Rosalita
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Goodbye mi amigo
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Jesus and Maria
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Oh, you won't have a name
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when you ride the big airplane
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And all they will call you is
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just Deportee
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Well, we died in your hills
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and we died in your deserts
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And we died in your valleys,
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and we died on your plain
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We died neath your trees,
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and we died neath the 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 you Juan,
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goodbye Rosalita
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Goodbye, mi amigo, Jesus and Maria
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You won't have a name
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when you ride the big airplane
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All they will call you will be deportee
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The skyplane caught fire
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over Los Gatos Canyon
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A fireball of lightning shook all our hills
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Who are all those people
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scattered like dry leaves?
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Well, radio says you're just deportees
Is this the best way
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we can grow our big orchards?
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Is this the best way
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we can grow our good fruit?
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To fall like dry leaves
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and rot on your topsoil
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And be called by no name
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except for tears
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Goodbye to you,
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I'm goodbye, Rosalita
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Goodbye, mi amigo, Jesús and Maria
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You won't have a name
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when you ride the big airplane
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For all them who call you,
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they'll be deportees
Outro 1
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Deportees (Plane Wreck At Los Gatos)
Barbara Dane, Lightnin' Hopkins
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