Key: Bb major•
Verse 1
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DEPORTEES
(Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)
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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to the Mexico border
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To pay all your money to wade back again
Verse 3
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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he waded that river
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They took all the money he made in his life
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working the fruit trees
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lay down and die
Verse 5
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F
goodbye Rosalita
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you ride the big airplane
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All they will call you will be deportees
Verse 6
Los Gatos Canyon
A fireball of lightning,
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an d it shook all the hills
Verse 7
just deportees
goodbye Rosalita
Adios mis amigos,
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Jesus y Maria
You won't have a name when you ride
All they will call you will be deportees
Verse 8
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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 in your bushes
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died just the same
Verse 9
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F
goodbye Rosalita
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you ride the big airplane
Verse 10
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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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like rustlers, like thieves.
Verse 11
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Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita
when you ride the big airplane
All they will call you will be deportees
Verse 12
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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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rot on the top soil
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except "deportee"
Verse 13
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goodbye Rosalita
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you ride the big air plane
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be deportees
Outro 1
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsBb Eb Gm F
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