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Deportee

Woody Guthrie
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Strum
D-DU-UDU
  The crops  are all in and the peaches  are rotting
  The oranges  piled in their creosote dumps
  You're flying  them back to the Mexican  border
  To pay all their  money, to wade  back again
 (After each verse)
  Goodbye  to my Juan, good-bye  Rosalita
  Adios  mes amigos, Jesus  and Maria
  You won't  have your names when you ride  the big airplane
  All they will call you will be  deportee
 2. My Father's own father, he waded that river
  They took all the money he made in his life
  My brothers and sisters come working the fruit trees
  And they rode the truck till they took down and died
 3. Some of us are illegal, and some are not wanted
  Our work contracts out and we have to move on
  Six hundred miles to that Mexican border
  They chase us like outlaws, like rustlers, like thieves
 4. We died in your hills, we died in your deserts
  We died in your valleys, and died on your plains
  We died 'neath your trees, and we died in your bushes
  Both sides of the river, we died just the same
 5. The sky plane caught fire over Los Gatos canyon
  A fireball of lightning, and shook all our hills
  Who are all these friends, all scattered like dry leaves?
  The radio says they are just deportees
 6. Is this the best way we can grow our big orchards?
  Is this the best way we can grow our good fruit?
  To fall like like dry leaves, to rot on my topsoil
  And to be called no name, except deportee.

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Readable chord sheet for Deportee by Woody Guthrie

The [D]crops are all in and the [G]peaches are [D]rotting
     The o[D]ranges piled in their cr[A7]eosote [D]dumps
     You're [G]flying them back to the [D]Mexican border
     To pay all t[D]heir money, to [A7]wade back ag[D]ain

(After each verse)
     Good[G]bye to my Juan, good-[D]bye Rosalita
     Adi[D]os mes amigos, Jes[D]us and Maria
     You [G]won't have your names when you [D]ride the big airplane
     All they will call you will [A7]be deport[D]ee

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

3.   Some of us are illegal, and some are not wanted
     Our work contracts out and we have to move on
     Six hundred miles to that Mexican border
     They chase us like outlaws, like rustlers, like thieves

4.   We died in your hills, we died in your deserts
     We died in your valleys, and died on your plains
     We died 'neath your trees, and we died in your bushes
     Both sides of the river, we died just the same

5.   The sky plane caught fire over Los Gatos canyon
     A fireball of lightning, and shook all our hills
     Who are all these friends, all scattered like dry leaves?
     The radio says they are just deportees

6.   Is this the best way we can grow our big orchards?
     Is this the best way we can grow our good fruit?
     To fall like like dry leaves, to rot on my topsoil
     And to be called no name, except deportee.

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