Deportee (Plane wreck at Los Gatos) (video)

F - C - C - G - C

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1. The crops are all in and the peaches are rotting,

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the oranges are packed in the creosote dumps.

F C

They're flying them back to the Mexican border

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to save all their money and wade back again.

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2. My father's own father he waded that river,

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others before him have done just the same.

F C

They died in the hills and they died in the valleys,

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some went to heaven without any names.

F C

Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita,

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adios mi amigos, Jesus y Maria.

F C

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

C G C

all they will call you will be Deportee.

+ F - C - C - G - C

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3. Some of us are illegal and others not wanted,

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our work contracts out and we have to move on.

F C

Six hundred miles to the Mexican border,

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they chase us like rustlers, like outlaws, like thieves.

+ CHORUS

+ instrumental = verse 3

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4. The sky plane caught fire over Los Gatos canyon,

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a fireball of thunder that shook all the hills.

F C

Who are all of these dear friends scattered like dry leaves ?

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The radio said they were just Deportees.

F C

Adios a mi Juan, adios Rosalita,

G G7 C

adios mi amigos, Jesus y Maria.

F C

No tendrá un nombre en el aeroplano,

C G C

all they will call you will be Deportee.

F C

Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita,

G G7 C

adios mi amigos, Jesus y Maria.

F C

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

C G C

all they will call you will be Deportee.

(Highwaymen)