Deportee – Woody Gutherie

[Verse 1]
    C                        F           C
The crops are all in and the peaches are rotting
     (C)                      G7     C
The oranges piled in their creosote dung
        F                       C
You're flying them back to the Mexican border
                 (C)        G7         C
To pay all their money, to wade back again
 
{ CHORUS }
         F                   C
     Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita
        G7                 C
     Adios mis amigos, Jesus and Maria
         F                              C
     You won't have your names when you ride the big airplane
                                 G7       C
     All they will call you will be deportee
 
[Verse 2]
    C                       F         C
My Father's own father, he waded that river
                            G7          C
They took all the money he made in his life
     F                        C
My brothers and sisters come working the fruit trees
                                  G7             C
And they rode the truck till they took down and died
 
{ CHORUS }
         F                   C
     Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita
        G7                 C
     Adios mis amigos, Jesus and Maria
         F                              C
     You won't have your names when you ride the big airplane
                                 G7       C
     All they will call you will be deportee
 
[Verse 3]
   C                         F             C
Some of us are illegal, and some are not wanted
                                G7          C
Our work contract's out and we have to move on
    F                       C
Six hundred miles to that Mexican border
                                  G7             C
They chase us like outlaws, like rustlers, like thieves
 
{ CHORUS }
         F                   C
     Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita
        G7                 C
     Adios mis amigos, Jesus and Maria
         F                              C
     You won't have your names when you ride the big airplane
                                 G7       C
     All they will call you will be deportee
 
[Verse 4]
    C                       F            C
We died in your hills, we died in your deserts
                              G7           C
We died in your valleys, and died on your plains
    F                             C
We died 'neath your trees, and we died in your bushes
                              G7           C
Both sides of the river, we died just the same
 
{ CHORUS }
         F                   C
     Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita
        G7                 C
     Adios mis amigos, Jesus and Maria
         F                              C
     You won't have your names when you ride the big airplane
                                 G7       C
     All they will call you will be deportee
 
[Verse 5]
     C                         F          C
The sky plane caught fire over Los Gatos canyon
                              G7           C
A fireball of lightning, and shook all our hills
     F                          C
Who are all these friends, all scattered like dry leaves?
                         G7        C
The radio says they are just deportees
 
{ CHORUS }
         F                   C
     Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita
        G7                 C
     Adios mis amigos, Jesus and Maria
         F                              C
     You won't have your names when you ride the big airplane
                                 G7       C
     All they will call you will be deportee
 
[Verse 6]
    C                        F             C
Is this the best way we can grow our big orchards?
                             G7            C
Is this the best way we can grow our good fruit?
    F                        C
To fall like dry leaves, to rot on my topsoil
                          G7           C
And to be called no name, except deportee
 
{ CHORUS }
         F                   C
     Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita
        G7                 C
     Adios mis amigos, Jesus and Maria
         F                              C
     You won't have your names when you ride the big airplane
                                 G7       C
     All they will call you will be deportee