Deportees lyrics

Artist  : Guthrie Woody 
Song : Deportees



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 DEPORTEES
  by Woody Guthrie
The crops
are all in and the peaches are rotting
The
oranges are filed in their creosote dumps
They're flying 'em back to the Mexico border
To take all their money to wade back again

 Goodbye to my Juan, farewell Roselita
 
Adios mes amigos, Jesus e Maria
  You won't
have a name when you ride the big airplane
 
All they will call you will be deportees
My
father's own father, he waded that river
They took all the money he made in his life
It's six hundred miles to the Mexico border
And they chased them like rustlers, like
outlaws, like thieves
The skyplane caught
fire over Los Gatos Canyon
The great ball of
fire it shook all our hills
Who are these
dear friends who are falling like dry leaves?
Radio said, "They are just deportees"
Is
this the best way we can grow our big
orchards?
Is this the best way we can raise
our good crops?
To fall like dry leaves and
rot on out topsoil
And be known by no names
except "deportees"
Copyright Ludlow Music,
Inc.
recorded on Judy Collins/3 and Guthrie
Greatest
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