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[Verse 1]
The Dcrops are all in and the Gpeaches are Drotting
(D) A7  D  
The oranges piled in their creosote dung
You're fGlying them back to the MDexican border
(D) A7  D  
To pay all their money, to wade back again
[Chorus]
GoodGbye to my Juan, goodDbye Rosalita
AdiA7os mis amigos, JesuDs and Maria
You Gwon't have your names when you Dride the big airplane
All they will call you will A7be deportDee
[Verse 2]
My FDather's own father, he wGaded that Driver
They took all the money he mA7ade in his lDife
My brGothers and sisters come wDorking the fruit trees
And they rode the truck till they A7took down and dDied
[Chorus]
GoodGbye to my Juan, goodDbye Rosalita
AdiA7os mis amigos, JesuDs and Maria
You Gwon't have your names when you Dride the big airplane
All they will call you will A7be deportDee
[Verse 3]
SomDe of us are illegal, and sGome are not waDnted
Our work contract's out and we hA7ave to move Don
Six Ghundred miles to that MeDxican border
They chase us like outlaws, like rA7ustlers, like tDhieves
[Chorus]
GoodGbye to my Juan, goodDbye Rosalita
AdiA7os mis amigos, JesuDs and Maria
You Gwon't have your names when you Dride the big airplane
All they will call you will A7be deportDee
[Verse 4]
We dDied in your hills, we diGed in your deDserts
We died in your valleys, and dA7ied on your pDlains
We dGied 'neath your trees, and we Ddied in your bushes
Both sides of the river, we diA7ed just the sDame
[Chorus]
GoodGbye to my Juan, goodDbye Rosalita
AdiA7os mis amigos, JesuDs and Maria
You Gwon't have your names when you Dride the big airplane
All they will call you will A7be deportDee
[Verse 5]
The sDky plane caught fire over GLos Gatos cDanyon
A fireball of lightning, and sA7hook all our Dhills
Who aGre all these friends, all sDcattered like dry leaves?
The radio says they are jA7ust deportDees
[Chorus]
GoodGbye to my Juan, goodDbye Rosalita
AdiA7os mis amigos, JesuDs and Maria
You Gwon't have your names when you Dride the big airplane
All they will call you will A7be deportDee
[Verse 6]
Is tDhis the best way we can gGrow our big orDchards?
Is this the best way we can gA7row our good fDruit?
To fGall like dry leaves, to rDot on my topsoil
And to be called no name, A7except deportDee
[Chorus]
GoodGbye to my Juan, goodDbye Rosalita
AdiA7os mis amigos, JesuDs and Maria
You Gwon't have your names when you Dride the big airplane
All they will call you will A7be deportDee
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