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