Deportee chords by Old Crow Medicine Show

Chords with lyrics

Verse 1:
G+G               C majorC      G+G
The crops are all in and the peaches are rott'ning,
               C majorC    G+G
The oranges piled in their creosote dumps;
     C majorC           G+G
They're flying 'em back to the Mexican border
              C majorC     G+G
To pay all their money to wade back again

G+G              C majorC      G+G
My father's own father, he waded that river,
              C majorC      G+G
They took all the money he made in his life;
   C majorC            G+G
My brothers and sisters come working the fruit trees,
                    C majorC       G+G
And they rode on the trucks till they took down and died.

Chorus:
   C majorC          G+G
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye, Rosalita,
  D MajorD        G+G
Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria;
   C majorC               G+G
You won't have your names when you ride the big airplane,
              C majorC     G+G
All they will call you will be "deportees"


Verse 2:
G+G              C majorC      G+G
Some of us are illegal, and some are not wanted,
                C majorC      G+G
Our work contract's out and we have to move on;
 C majorC             G+G
Six hundred miles to that Mexican border,
                  C majorC       G+G
They chase us like outlaws, like rustlers, like thieves.

G+G              C majorC       G+G
We died in your hills, we died in your deserts,
               C majorC       G+G
We died in your valleys and died on your plains.
   C majorC              G+G
We died 'neath your trees and we died in your bushes,
               C majorC       G+G
Both sides of the river, we died just the same.

Chorus:
   C majorC          G+G
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye, Rosalita,
  D MajorD        G+G
Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria;
   C majorC               G+G
You won't have your names when you ride the big airplane,
              C majorC     G+G
All they will call you will be "deportees"


Verse 3:
 G+G               C majorC     G+G
The sky plane caught fire over Los Gatos Canyon,
                C majorC      G+G
A augmentedA fireball of lightning, it shook all our hills,
   C majorC              G+G
Who are all these friends, all scattered like dry leaves?
              C majorC     G+G
The radio says, "They are just deportees"

G+G              C majorC       G+G
Is this the best way we can grow our big orchards?
               C majorC       G+G
Is this the best way we can grow our good fruit?
   C majorC           G+G
To fall like dry leaves to rot on my topsoil
              C majorC      G+G
And be called by no name except "deportees"?


Chorus:
   C majorC          G+G
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye, Rosalita,
  D MajorD        G+G
Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria;
   C majorC               G+G
You won't have your names when you ride the big airplane,
              C majorC     G+G
All they will call you will be "deportees"


Chorus:
   C majorC          G+G
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye, Rosalita,
  D MajorD        G+G
Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria;
   C majorC               G+G
You won't have your names when you ride the big airplane,
              C majorC     G+G
All they will call you will be "deportees"
               C majorC     G+G       G+G    C majorC