Plane Wreck at Los Gatos [Deportee] chords by Joan Baez
Verse 1
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DEPORTEES
(Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)
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Words by Woody Guthrie,
Verse 2
music by Martin Hoffman
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The crops are all in and the
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peaches are rotting
The oranges are packed in the
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creosote dumps
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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
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Verse 3
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Goodbye to my Juan,
goodbye Rosalita
Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria
You won't have a name when you
ride the big airplane
All they will call you will be deportees
Verse 4
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My father's own father,
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he waded that river
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They took all the money 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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They rode the big trucks till they
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lay down and die
Verse 5
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Goodbye to my Juan,
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goodbye Rosalita
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Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria
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You won't have a name when
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you ride the big airplane
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All they will call you will be deportees
Verse 6
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The skyplane caught fire over
Los Gatos Canyon
A fireball of lightning,
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and it shook all the hills
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Who are these comrades that
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died like the dry leaves
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The radio tells me they're
Verse 7
just deportees
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Goodbye to my Juan,
goodbye Rosalita
Adios mis amigos,
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Jesus y Maria
You won't have a name when you ride
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the big airplane
All they will call you will be deportees
Verse 8
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We died in your hills and we
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died in your deserts
We died in your valleys we
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died on your plains
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We died 'neath your trees and
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we died in your bushes
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Both sides of the river we
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died just the same
Verse 9
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Goodbye to my Juan,
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goodbye Rosalita
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Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria
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You won't have a name when
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you ride the big airplane
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All they will call you will
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be deportees
Verse 10
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Some of us are illegal,
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and others not wanted
Our work contract's out
and we have to move on
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But it's six hundred miles to
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that Mexican border
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They chase us like outlaws,
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like rustlers, like thieves.
Verse 11
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Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita
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Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria
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You won't have a name
when you ride the big airplane
All they will call you will be deportees
Verse 12
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Is this the best way we can
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grow our big orchards
Is this the best way we can
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grow our good fruit
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To fall like dry leaves and
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rot on the top soil
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And be called by no name
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except "deportee"
Verse 13
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Goodbye to my Juan,
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goodbye Rosalita
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Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria
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You won't have a name when
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you ride the big airplane
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All they will call you will
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be deportees
Outro 1
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Plane Wreck at Los Gatos [Deportee]
Joan Baez
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