The crops are all in, the peaches are rotting   The oranges are piled in their creosote dumps   They're flying you back to the mexico border   To pay all your money to wade back again      My father's own father, he waded that river   They took all the money he made in his life   My brothers and sisters they work in the fruit trees   They rode the truck till they took down and died      Good-bye to my juan, good-bye rosalita   Adios mes amigos, jesus e maria   You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane   And all they will call you will be "deportee"      Some of us are illegal, and some are not wanted   Our work contract's out and we have to move on   Six hundred miles to the mexican border   They chase us like rustlers, like outlaws, like thieves.      We died in your hills. we died on your deserts.   We've died in your mountains, and died on your plains.   We've died 'neath your trees, and we've died in your bushes.   Both sides of the river, we've died just the same.      Good-bye to my juan, good-bye rosalita   Adios mes amigos, jesus e maria   You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane   And all they will call you will be "deportee"      The skyplane caught fire over los gatos canyon   A fireball of lightning that shook all our hills   Who were all these dear friends all scattered like dry leaves?    The radio says they were just deportees.      Is this the best way we can grow our big orchards?    And is this the best way we can grow our good fruit?    To fall like dry leaves and rot on the top soil,   And be known by no name except "deportee".      Good-bye to my juan, good-bye rosalita   Adios mes amigos, jesus e maria   You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane   And all they will call you will be "deportee"