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Viewing Lyrics for Deportee:
| | | Artist: | PETER, PAUL AND MARY |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Deportee | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 3 | | | | Lyrics: | (Woody GuthrieMartin Hoffman)
The crops are all in, the peaches are rotting
The oranges
piled in their creosote dumps
They're flying us back to the Mexican border
To pay all our
money just to wade back again
Some of us are illegal and some are not wanted
Our work
contract's out and we have to move on
600 miles to that Mexican border
They chase us like
outlaws, like thieves on the run
[Chorus:]
Goodbye to my Juan, good-bye
Rosalita
Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria
You won't have a name when you ride the big
airplane
All they will call you will be deportee
The sky plane caught fire over Los
Gatos canyon
A fireball of lightning that shook all the hills
Who are these friends now all
scattered like dry leaves?
The radio says they are just deportees
[Chorus]
We
died in your hills, we died in your deserts
We died in your valleys and we 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
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 dry leaves and to rot on the topsoil
And be called
by no name except
deportees?
[Chorus] | | | |
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