Key: Bb major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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and the lettuce is rotting
The oranges are piled
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in their creosote dimes
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that Mexican border
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and wade back again
My father's own father,
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he waded that river
They took all the money
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he made in his life
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working the fruit trees
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till they lay down and died.
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Adios, mis amigos, Jesús y María.
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when you ride the big aeroplane
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will be deportees
Some of us are illegal
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and others not wanted
Our work contract's out
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and we've got to move on.
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to that Mexican border.
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like rustlers, like thieves.
We've died on your hills
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and we've died on your deserts
We've died in your valleys,
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we've died on your plains
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and we've died in your bushes
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we've died just the same.
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Adios, mis amigos, Jesús y María.
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when you ride the big aeroplane
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will be D -14
The sky plane caught fire
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over Lost Gattoes Canyon
A fireball of lightning,
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it shook all our hills
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all scattered like dried leaves?
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just deportees.
Is this the best way
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we can grow our good orchards?
Is this the best way
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we can grow our good fruit?
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rot on your top soil
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cept deportees
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Goodbye to my one goodbye,
Rosalita
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Adios, mis amigos, Jesus y Maria
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when you ride the big airplane
Outro 1
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsBb Eb Gm F
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