Deportee

The crops are all in and the peaches are rotting
the oranges are packed in their creosote dumps
They're flying them back to the Mexican border
to save all their money and wade back again

My father's own father, he waded that river
others before him have done just the same
They died in the hills and they died in the valleys
and some went to heaven without any name

Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Roselita
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

Some of us are illegal and others not wanted
our work contract's out and we have to move on
It's six hundred miles to the Mexican border
they chase us like rustlers, like outlaws, like thieves

Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Roselita
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 skyplane caught fire over Los Gatos canyon
a fireball of thunder and it shook all the hills
Who are all of these dear friends, scattered like dry leaves?
The radio said they were "just deportees"

Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Roselita
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

You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane
all they will call you will be deportee

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