(Woody Guthrie & Martin Hoffman)
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The crops are all in
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And the peaches are rotting
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The oranges are stacked
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In their Creosote dumps
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They're flying them back
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To that Mexico border
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To pay all their wages
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To wade back again
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[Chorus:]
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Goodbye to you Juan, goodbye Rosalita
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Adios mis amigos, Jesus and Maria
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You won't have a name
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When you ride the big airplane
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All they will call you
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Will be deportee
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My father's own father
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He waded that river
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They took all the money
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He made in his life
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My brothers and sisters
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Come working the fruit trees
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And they rode on the trucks
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'til they took down and died
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[Chorus:]
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Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita
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Adios mis amigos, Jesus and Maria
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You won't have a name
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When you ride the big airplane
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All they will call you
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Will be deportee
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Somos ilegales (well some are illegal)
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Y mi recibidos (And some are not wanted)
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Se a caba el contrato (Our work contracts out)
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Y de alli a caminar (And we've got to move on)
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Six hundred miles
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To that Mexico border
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They chase us like outlaws
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Like rustlers, like thieves
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[Chorus]
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We died in your hills
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And we died on your deserts
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We died in your valleys
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We died on your plains
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We died 'neath your trees
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And we died in your bushes
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Both sides of that river
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We died just the same
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The sky plane caught fire
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Over Los Gatos Canyon
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Like a fireball of lightning
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And shook all our hills
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Who are all those friends
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All scattered like dry leaves
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The radio says
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They are just deportees
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[Chorus]
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Is this the best way
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We can grow our big orchards?
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Is this the best way
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We can grow our good fruit?
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To fall like dry leaves
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And rot on my topsoil
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And be known by no name
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Except deportee
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[Chorus]
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Goodbye to myjuan,
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Goodbye Rosalita
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Adios mis amigos,
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Jesus and Maria
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You won't have a name
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When you ride the big airplane
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All they will call you
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Will be deportee
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Deportee (Plane Wreck At Los Gatos)
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| Nanci Griffith |
