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DThe crops are all in and the peGaches are roDtting
The oranges are packed in their cA7reosote dDumpsD7  
You're fGlying them back to the MexDican border
To spend all their money, to wA7ade back agDainD7  
CHORUS:
GoodbGye to my Juan, good-bDye Rosalita
AdiA7os mes amigos, JesDus y MaD7ria
You wGon't have a name when you riDde the big airplane
And all they will call you will A7be deporDtee
Some of us are illegal, and others not wanted
Our work contracts out and we've got to move on
Six hundred miles to that Mexican border
They chase us like outlaws, like rustlers, like thieves...CHORUS
The sky plane caught fire over Los Gatos canyon
A fireball of lightning, that shook all our hills
Who are all these friends who are scattered like dry leaves?
The radio said they were just deportees...CHORUS TWICE
EXTRA VERSES:
My Father's own father, he waded that river
They took all the money he made in his life
My brothers and sisters come working the fruit trees
And they rode the truck till they took down and died ...CHORUS
We died in your hills, we died in your deserts
We died in your valleys, and died on your plains
We died 'neath your trees, and we died in your bushes
Both sides of the river, we died just the same...CHORUS

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Deportee

by The Byrds

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D G D

The crops are all in and the peaches are rotting

A7 D D7

The oranges are packed in their creosote dumps

G D

You're flying them back to the Mexican border

A7 D D7

To spend all their money, to wade back again

CHORUS:

G D

Goodbye to my Juan, good-bye Rosalita

A7 D D7

Adios mes amigos, Jesus y Maria

G D

You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane

A7 D

And all they will call you will be deportee

Some of us are illegal, and others not wanted

Our work contracts out and we've got to move on

Six hundred miles to that Mexican border

They chase us like outlaws, like rustlers, like thieves...CHORUS

The sky plane caught fire over Los Gatos canyon

A fireball of lightning, that shook all our hills

Who are all these friends who are scattered like dry leaves?

The radio said they were just deportees...CHORUS TWICE

EXTRA VERSES:

My Father's own father, he waded that river

They took all the money he made in his life

My brothers and sisters come working the fruit trees

And they rode the truck till they took down and died ...CHORUS

We died in your hills, we died in your deserts

We died in your valleys, and died on your plains

We died 'neath your trees, and we died in your bushes

Both sides of the river, we died just the same...CHORUS

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