{"id":27844,"date":"2026-01-02T22:22:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T22:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=27844"},"modified":"2026-01-02T22:26:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T22:26:01","slug":"deportee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/deportee\/","title":{"rendered":"Deportee – Woody Gutherie"},"content":{"rendered":"
[Verse 1]\r\n    C<\/span>                        F<\/span>           C<\/span>\r\nThe crops are all in and the peaches are rotting\r\n     (C<\/span>)                      G7<\/span>     C<\/span>\r\nThe oranges piled in their creosote dung\r\n        F<\/span>                       C<\/span>\r\nYou're flying them back to the Mexican border\r\n                 (C<\/span>)        G7<\/span>         C<\/span>\r\nTo pay all their money, to wade back again\r\n \r\n{ CHORUS }\r\n         F<\/span>                   C<\/span>\r\n     Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita\r\n        G7<\/span>                 C<\/span>\r\n     Adios mis amigos, Jesus and Maria\r\n         F<\/span>                              C<\/span>\r\n     You won't have your names when you ride the big airplane\r\n                                 G7<\/span>       C<\/span>\r\n     All they will call you will be deportee\r\n \r\n[Verse 2]\r\n    C<\/span>                       F<\/span>         C<\/span>\r\nMy Father's own father, he waded that river\r\n                            G7<\/span>          C<\/span>\r\nThey took all the money he made in his life\r\n     F<\/span>                        C<\/span>\r\nMy brothers and sisters come working the fruit trees\r\n                                  G7<\/span>             C<\/span>\r\nAnd they rode the truck till they took down and died\r\n \r\n{ CHORUS }\r\n         F<\/span>                   C<\/span>\r\n     Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita\r\n        G7<\/span>                 C<\/span>\r\n     Adios mis amigos, Jesus and Maria\r\n         F<\/span>                              C<\/span>\r\n     You won't have your names when you ride the big airplane\r\n                                 G7<\/span>       C<\/span>\r\n     All they will call you will be deportee\r\n \r\n[Verse 3]\r\n   C<\/span>                         F<\/span>             C<\/span>\r\nSome of us are illegal, and some are not wanted\r\n                                G7<\/span>          C<\/span>\r\nOur work contract's out and we have to move on\r\n    F                       C\r\nSix hundred miles to that Mexican border\r\n                                  G7             C\r\nThey chase us like outlaws, like rustlers, like thieves\r\n \r\n{ CHORUS }\r\n         F                   C\r\n     Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita\r\n        G7                 C\r\n     Adios mis amigos, Jesus and Maria\r\n         F                              C\r\n     You won't have your names when you ride the big airplane\r\n                                 G7       C\r\n     All they will call you will be deportee\r\n \r\n[Verse 4]\r\n    C                       F            C\r\nWe died in your hills, we died in your deserts\r\n                              G7           C\r\nWe died in your valleys, and died on your plains\r\n    F                             C\r\nWe died 'neath your trees, and we died in your bushes\r\n                              G7           C\r\nBoth sides of the river, we died just the same\r\n \r\n{ CHORUS }\r\n         F                   C\r\n     Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita\r\n        G7                 C\r\n     Adios mis amigos, Jesus and Maria\r\n         F                              C\r\n     You won't have your names when you ride the big airplane\r\n                                 G7       C\r\n     All they will call you will be deportee\r\n \r\n[Verse 5]\r\n     C                         F          C\r\nThe sky plane caught fire over Los Gatos canyon\r\n                              G7           C\r\nA fireball of lightning, and shook all our hills\r\n     F                          C\r\nWho are all these friends, all scattered like dry leaves?\r\n                         G7        C\r\nThe radio says they are just deportees\r\n \r\n{ CHORUS }\r\n         F                   C\r\n     Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita\r\n        G7                 C\r\n     Adios mis amigos, Jesus and Maria\r\n         F                              C\r\n     You won't have your names when you ride the big airplane\r\n                                 G7       C\r\n     All they will call you will be deportee\r\n \r\n[Verse 6]\r\n    C                        F             C\r\nIs this the best way we can grow our big orchards?\r\n                             G7            C\r\nIs this the best way we can grow our good fruit?\r\n    F                        C\r\nTo fall like dry leaves, to rot on my topsoil\r\n                          G7           C\r\nAnd to be called no name, except deportee\r\n \r\n{ CHORUS }\r\n         F                   C\r\n     Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita\r\n        G7                 C\r\n     Adios mis amigos, Jesus and Maria\r\n         F                              C\r\n     You won't have your names when you ride the big airplane\r\n                                 G7       C\r\n     All they will call you will be deportee<\/span><\/pre>\n
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