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Deportee

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[Verse 1]
    D                        G           D
The crops are all in and the peaches are rotting
      D                      A7   D
     ()                           
The oranges piled in their creosote dung
        G                       D
You're flying them back to the Mexican border
                  D        A7       D
                 ()                 
To pay all their money, to wade back again
[Chorus]
         G                   D
     Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita
        A7                 D
     Adios mis amigos, Jesus and Maria
         G                              D
     You won't have your names when you ride the big airplane
                                 A7       D
     All they will call you will be deportee
[Verse 2]
    D                       G         D
My Father's own father, he waded that river
                            A7          D
They took all the money he made in his life
     G                        D
My brothers and sisters come working the fruit trees
                                  A7             D
And they rode the truck till they took down and died
[Chorus]
         G                   D
     Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita
        A7                 D
     Adios mis amigos, Jesus and Maria
         G                              D
     You won't have your names when you ride the big airplane
                                 A7       D
     All they will call you will be deportee
[Verse 3]
   D                         G             D
Some of us are illegal, and some are not wanted
                                A7          D
Our work contract's out and we have to move on
    G                       D
Six hundred miles to that Mexican border
                                  A7             D
They chase us like outlaws, like rustlers, like thieves
[Chorus]
         G                   D
     Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita
        A7                 D
     Adios mis amigos, Jesus and Maria
         G                              D
     You won't have your names when you ride the big airplane
                                 A7       D
     All they will call you will be deportee
[Verse 4]
    D                       G            D
We died in your hills, we died in your deserts
                              A7           D
We died in your valleys, and died on your plains
    G                             D
We died 'neath your trees, and we died in your bushes
                              A7           D
Both sides of the river, we died just the same
[Chorus]
         G                   D
     Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita
        A7                 D
     Adios mis amigos, Jesus and Maria
         G                              D
     You won't have your names when you ride the big airplane
                                 A7       D
     All they will call you will be deportee
[Verse 5]
     D                         G          D
The sky plane caught fire over Los Gatos canyon
                              A7           D
A fireball of lightning, and shook all our hills
     G                          D
Who are all these friends, all scattered like dry leaves?
                         A7        D
The radio says they are just deportees
[Chorus]
         G                   D
     Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita
        A7                 D
     Adios mis amigos, Jesus and Maria
         G                              D
     You won't have your names when you ride the big airplane
                                 A7       D
     All they will call you will be deportee
[Verse 6]
    D                        G             D
Is this the best way we can grow our big orchards?
                             A7            D
Is this the best way we can grow our good fruit?
    G                        D
To fall like dry leaves, to rot on my topsoil
                          A7           D
And to be called no name, except deportee
[Chorus]
         G                   D
     Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita
        A7                 D
     Adios mis amigos, Jesus and Maria
         G                              D
     You won't have your names when you ride the big airplane
                                 A7       D
     All they will call you will be deportee

Deportee chords and lyrics

Free chords for Deportee by Woody Guthrie. Scroll the interactive sheet above or read the chord names inline below.

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Deportee Chords by Woody Guthrie

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The chords for "Deportee" show the original chord names (including D, G, A7, A). Use transpose to move the song into any key that fits your voice or capo.