Deportees Lyrics by Guthrie Woody
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DEPORTEES by Woody GuthrieThe crops are all in and the peaches are rottingThe oranges are filed in their creosote dumpsThey're flying 'em back to the Mexico borderTo 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 deporteesMy father's own father, he waded that riverThey took all the money he made in his lifeIt's six hundred miles to the Mexico borderAnd they chased them like rustlers, like outlaws, like thievesThe skyplane caught fire over Los Gatos CanyonThe great ball of fire it shook all our hillsWho 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 topsoilAnd be known by no names except "deportees"Copyright Ludlow Music, Inc.recorded on Judy Collins/3 and Guthrie Greatestfilename[ DEPORTEplay.exe DEPORTESF===DOCUMENT BOUNDARY===
DEPORTEES by Woody GuthrieThe crops are all in and the peaches are rottingThe oranges are filed in their creosote dumpsThey're flying 'em back to the Mexico borderTo 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 deporteesMy father's own father, he waded that riverThey took all the money he made in his lifeIt's six hundred miles to the Mexico borderAnd they chased them like rustlers, like outlaws, like thievesThe skyplane caught fire over Los Gatos CanyonThe great ball of fire it shook all our hillsWho 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 topsoilAnd be known by no names except "deportees"Copyright Ludlow Music, Inc.recorded on Judy Collins/3 and Guthrie Greatestfilename[ DEPORTEplay.exe DEPORTESF===DOCUMENT BOUNDARY===