Deportee chords by Richard Shindell

Chords with lyrics

Intro:
D MajorD              G+G      D MajorD
The crops are all in and the peaches are rotting
                G+G    D MajorD
The oranges are packed in their creosote dumps
    G+G            D MajorD   B minorBm
They're flying 'em back to that Mexico border
  D MajorD            G+G      D MajorD
To take all their money to wade back a gain

  D MajorD            G+G     D MajorD
My father's own father, he waded that river
              G+G      D MajorD
They took all the money he made in his life
  G+G             D MajorD      B minorBm
My brothers and sisters come working the fruit trees
   D MajorD               G+G      D MajorD
They rode the big trucks till they lay down and died

Chorus:
   G+G          D MajorD
Good bye to my Juan, good bye Rosalita
  A augmentedA         D MajorD
Adi os mis amigos, Je sus y Maria
  G+G             D MajorD      B minorBm
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane
  D MajorD              G+G    D MajorD
And all they will call you will be depor tee

Verse:
D MajorD              G+G      D MajorD
Some of us are illegal, and all are not wanted
                 G+G      D MajorD
Our work contract's out and we've got to move on
G+G             D MajorD    B minorBm
Six hundred miles to that Mexican border
   D MajorD              G+G       D MajorD
They chase us like outlaws, like rustlers, like thieves
  D MajorD           G+G      D MajorD
We died in your hills, we died in your deserts
              G+G      D MajorD
We died in your armies, we died on your plains
  G+G               D MajorD         B minorBm
We died 'neath your trees and we died 'neath those bushes
   D MajorD            G+G       D MajorD
Both sides of that river, we died just the same

Chorus:
  D MajorD             G+G     D MajorD
The sky plane caught fire over Los Gatos Canyon
                 G+G       D MajorD
Like a fireball of lightning, it shook all our hills
  G+G           D MajorD     B minorBm
Who are all these friends, dying like dry leaves?
  D MajorD          G+G     D MajorD
The radio says they are just depor tees

Verse:
  D MajorD            G+G      D MajorD
Is this the best way we can grow our big orchards?
              G+G       D MajorD
Is this the best way we can grow our good fruit?
  G+G            D MajorD     B minorBm
To fall like dry leaves and rot on my topsoil
  D MajorD           G+G     D MajorD
And be known by no name ex cept depor tee

Chorus:
  D MajorD             G+G     D MajorD
The sky plane caught fire over Los Gatos Canyon
                 G+G       D MajorD
Like a fireball of lightning, it shook all our hills
  G+G           D MajorD     B minorBm
Who are all these friends, dying like dry leaves?
  D MajorD          G+G     D MajorD
The radio says they are just depor tees