Deportee chords by Richard Shindell

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

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

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

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

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

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

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