Chords with lyrics
Key: Bb majorBb
🎸 Intro:
G+G C majorC A minorAm D MajorD
🎸 Verse :
G+G C majorC G+G
The crops are all in and the peaches are rotting
G+G D MajorD G+G
The oranges are piled in their creosote dumps
C majorC G+G
You're flying them back to the Mexican border
D MajorD G+G
To pay all their money to wade back again
🎸 Chorus:
C majorC G+G
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita
D MajorD G+G
Adios mis a-mi-gos
Jesus and Maria
C majorC G+G E minorEm
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane
G+G D MajorD G+G C majorC A minorAm D MajorD
All they will call you will be deportee
🎸 Verse :
G+G C majorC G+G
Some of us are illegal and some of us are not wanted
D MajorD G+G
Our work contract's out and we have to move on
C majorC G+G
But it's 600 miles to that Mexican border
D MajorD G+G
They chase us like outlaws, like rustlers, like thieves
🎸 Chorus:
C majorC G+G
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita
D MajorD G+G
Adios mis a-mi-gos
Jesus and Maria
C majorC G+G E minorEm
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane
G+G D MajorD G+G C majorC A minorAm D MajorD
All they will call you will be deportee
🎸 Verse :
G+G C majorC G+G
My father's own father he waded that river
D MajorD G+G
They took all the money he made in his life
C majorC G+G
My brothers and sister come work the fruit trees
D MajorD G+G
They rode the truck til' they laid down and died
🎸 Verse :
G+G C majorC G+G
The airplane caught fire over Los Gatos canyon
D MajorD G+G
A augmentedA fireball of lightning that shook all our hills
C majorC G+G
Who are these dear friends all scattered like dry leaves
D MajorD G+G
The radio said they were just deportees
🎸 Chorus:
C majorC G+G
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita
D MajorD G+G
Adios mis a-mi-gos
Jesus and Maria
C majorC G+G E minorEm
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane
G+G D MajorD E minorEm
All they will call you will be deportee
🎸 Outro:
G+G D MajorD G+G C majorC A minorAm D MajorD
No, all they will call you will be deportee