Deportee
1 4 1
The crops are all in and the peaches are rotting
4 1
The oranges piled in their creosote dumps
4 1
You're flying them back to the Mexican border
4 1
To pay all their money, to wade back again
Chorus:
4 1
Goodbye to my Juan, good-bye Rosalita
5 1
Adios mes amigos, Jesus and Maria
4 1
You won't have your names when you ride the big airplane
4 1
All they will call you will be deportee
1 4 1
My Father's own father, he waded that river
4 1
They took all the money he made in his life
4 1
My brothers and sisters come working the fruit trees
4 1
And they rode the truck till they took down and died . . . Chorus
1 4 1
Some of us are illegal, and some are not wanted
4 1
Our work contracts out and we have to move on
4 1
Six hundred miles to that Mexican border
4 1
They chase us like outlaws, like rustlers, like thieves . . . Chorus
1 4 1
We died in your hills, we died in your deserts
4 1
We died in your valleys, and died on your plains
4 1
We died 'neath your trees, and we died in your bushes
4 1
Both sides of the river, we died just the same . . . Chorus
1 4 1
The sky plane caught fire over Los Gatos canyon
4 1
A fireball of lightning, and shook all our hills
4 1
Who are all these friends, all scattered like dry leaves?
4 1
The radio says they are just deportees . . . Chorus
1 4 1
Is this the best way we can grow our big orchards?
4 1
Is this the best way we can grow our good fruit?
4 1
To fall like like dry leaves, to rot on my topsoil
4 1
And to be called no name, except deportee. . . . Chorus
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Chord Number System:
Number : 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
minor minor minor
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Key of A: A B C# D E F# G#
Key of B: B C# D# E F# G# A#
Key of C: C D E F G A B
Key of D: D E F# G A B C#
Key of E: E F# G# A B C# D#
Key of F: F G A Bb C D E
Key of G: G A B C D E F#
The 5th can be played with dominant 7th