{t:Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)}
{st:Woody Guthrie (1948)}
{sot}
3/4 | d - D - D - |
      1   2   3
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#img=Deportee_Intro.jpg#iend

The [/] [F] crops are all [/] in, and the [/] [Bb] peaches are [/] [F] rotting [/] [F]  
The [/] [F] oranges are [/] piled in their [/] [Bb] creosote [/] [F] dumps [/] [F]  
You're [/] [Bb] flying them [/] back to the [/] [F] Mexico [/] [Dm] border
To [/] [F] pay all your [/] [Dm] money, to [/] [Bb] wade back a- [/] [F] gain  [/] [F]  


My [F] Father's own father, he [Bb] waded that [F] river   [F]  
They [F] took all the money he [Bb] made in his [F] life   [F]  
My [Bb] brothers and sisters come [F] working the fruit [Dm] trees
And [F] they rode the [Dm] truck till they [Bb] took down and [F] died  [F]  


{soc}
Good- [/] [Bb] bye to my [/] Juan, good- [/] [F] bye Rosa- [/] lita
Adi- [/] [C7] os mes a- [/] migos, Je- [/] [F] sus and Ma- [/] ria
You [/] [Bb] won't have a [/] name when you [/] [F] ride the big [/] [Dm] airplane
[/] [F] All they will [/] [Dm] call you will [/] [Bb] be depor- [/] [F] tees [/] [F]  
{eoc}


[F] Some of us are illegal, and [Bb] others not [F] wanted  [F]  
Our [F] work contracts [Dm] out and we [Bb] have to move [F] on  [F]  
Six [Bb] hundred miles to that [F] Mexico [Dm] border
They [F] chase us like [Dm] outlaws, like [Bb] rustlers and [F] thieves [F]  


We [F] died in your hills, we [Bb] died in your [F] deserts  [F]  
We [F] died in your valleys, we [Bb] died on your [F] plains  [F]  
We [Bb] died in your trees, and we [F] died in your [Dm] bushes
Both [F] sides of the [Dm] river, we've [Bb] died just the [F] same  [F]  


{soc}
Good- [/] [Bb] bye to my [/] Juan, good- [/] [F] bye Rosa- [/] lita
Adi- [/] [C7] os mes a- [/] migos, Je- [/] [F] sus and Ma- [/] ria
You [/] [Bb] won't have your [/] names when you [/] [F] ride the big [/] [Dm] airplane
[/] [F] All they will [/] [Dm] call you will [/] [Bb] be depor- [/] [F] tees [/] [F]  
{eoc}


The [F] sky plane caught fire over [Bb] Los Gatos can- [F] yon [F]  
A [F] fireball of lightning, and [Bb] shook all our [F] hills  [F]  
[Bb] Who are all these friends, all [F] scattered like [Dm] dry leaves?
The [F] radio [Dm] says they are [Bb] just depor- [F] tees [F]  


Is [F] this the best way we can [Bb] grow our big [F] orchards? [F]  
Is [F] this the best [Dm] way we can [Bb] grow our good [F] fruit?  [F]  
To [Bb] fall like like dry leaves, to [F] rot on your [Dm] topsoil
And [F] be known by [Dm] no name, ex- [Bb] cept depor- [F] tees. [F]  


{soc}
Good- [/] [Bb] bye to my [/] Juan, good- [/] [F] bye Rosa- [/] lita
Adi- [/] [C7] os mes a- [/] migos, Je- [/] [F] sus and Ma- [/] ria
You [/] [Bb] won't have your [/] names when you [/] [F] ride the big [/] [Dm] airplane
[/] [F] All they will [/] [Dm] call you will [/] [Bb] be depor- [/] [F] tees [/] [F]  
{eoc}


#Play along with the Arlo Guthrie in this key.
#Video=c2eO65BqxBE#vend
#Play along with this alternate version in the key of D.
#Video=qu-duTWccyI#vend
#Last Updated 4/23/19 JJ
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