[ti:Deportees]
[ar:Arlo Guthrie]
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[00:00.00]Deportees - Arlo Guthrie
[00:05.62]The crops are all in and the peaches are rotting
[00:11.73]The oranges are piled in their cresote dumps
[00:17.47]They're flying you back to the Mexico border
[00:22.79]To pay all your money to wade back again
[00:28.94]My father's own father he wanted that river
[00:35.33]They took all the money he made in his life
[00:41.22]My brothers and sisters come working the fruit trees
[00:46.70]And they rode the truck till they took down and died
[00:52.61]Good-bye to my Juan good-bye Rosalita
[00:57.72]Adios mis amigos Jesus y Maris
[01:02.75]You won't have a name when you ride the big air-plane
[01:08.11]And all they will call you will be deportees
[01:16.93]Some of us are illega and others not wanted
[01:23.11]Our work contract's out and we have to move on
[01:29.31]But it's six hundred miles to that Mexican border
[01:34.12]They chase us like outlaws like rustlers like theives
[01:40.38]We died in your hills we died in your deserts
[01:46.68]We died in your valleys and died on your plains
[01:52.63]We died 'neath your trees and we died in your bushes
[01:57.59]Both sides of the river we died just the same
[02:03.92]Good-bye to my Juan good-bye Rosalita
[02:08.76]Adios mis amigos Jesus y Maris
[02:13.77]You won't have a name when you ride the big air-plane
[02:19.17]And all they will call you will be deportees
[02:27.98]A sky plane caught fire over Los Gatos canyon
[02:33.82]Like a fireball of lightning it shook all our hills
[02:40.31]Who are all these friends all scattered like dry leaves
[02:45.34]The radio says they are just deportees
[02:51.29]Is this the best way we can grow our big orchards
[02:57.77]Is this the best way we can grow our good fruit
[03:03.61]To fall like dry leaves to rot on my topsoil
[03:08.87]And be called by no name except deportees
[03:14.86]Good-bye to my Juan good-bye Rosalita
[03:19.90]Adios mis amigos Jesus y Maris
[03:24.89]You won't have a name when you ride the big air-plane
[03:30.50]And all they will call you will be deportees