Deportee lyrics

Artist  : Kingston Trio 
Song : Deportee



 Send "Deportee" Ringtone to your Cell 

 Woody Guthrie/Martin Hoffman



The crops are all in and the peaches are
rott'ning.

The oranges are piled in their creosote dumps.

They're flying them back to the Mexico border

To take all their money to wade back again.



Chorus:

Goodbye to my Juan, farewell Roselita,

Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria.

You won't have a name when you ride the big
airplane.

All they will call you is just deportee.



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 Mexican border

And they chased him like rustlers, like outlaws,
like thieves.



The airplane caught fire over Los Gatos
Canyon,

A great ball of fire that shook all the hills.

Who are these friends who are falling like dry
leaves?

The radio said, "They're 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 our topsoil

And be known by no name except deportee.



(Chorus)