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Deportee / Plane Wreck at Los Gatos by Judy Collins
Deportee / Plane Wreck at Los Gatos
Tuning:E A D G B E
Capo:3rd fret
[Intro]
G C D G
[Verse 1]
C G
The crops are all in and the peaches are rotting
D G
The oranges are packed in their creosote dumps
C G
They're flying them back to the Mexican border
D G
It takes all their money to wade back again
[Chorus]
C G
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita
D G
Adios mi amigos, Jesus y Maria
C G
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane
D G C D G
All they will call you will be 'Deportee'
[Verse 2]
C D
My father's own father, he waded that river
D G
They took all the money he made in his life
C G
My sisters and brothers come work in the fruit trees
D G
Rode that truck till they went down and died
[Verse 3]
C G
Some of us are illegal and others not wanted
D G
Our work contract's out and we have to move on
C G
Six hundred miles to the Mexican border
D G
They chase us like rustlers, like outlaws, like thieves
[Chorus]
C G
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita
D G
Adios mi amigos, Jesus y Maria
C G
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane
D G C D G
All they will call you will be 'Deportee'
[Verse 4]
C G
The sky plane caught fire over Los Gatos canyon
D G
A fireball of thunder that shook all the hills
C G
Who are all these dear friends, scattered like dry leaves
D G
The radio says, "They are just deportees"
[Verse 5]
C G
Is this the best way we can raise our good orchards?
D G
Is this the best way we can grow our good crops?
C G
To die and be scattered, to rot on my topsoil
D G
And be called by no name except "Deportees"?
[Chorus]
C G
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita
D G
Adios mi amigos, Jesus y Maria
C G
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane
D G C D G
All they will call you will be 'Deportee'
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