Deportee (Plane Wreck At Los Gatos)
Dolly Parton.
Album: 9 To 5 & Odd Jobs.
(Written by Woody Guthrie
inspired by a true event
and a brilliant version.)
Intro: Bb Eb Cm7 Gdim7/F F
Bb Eb Bb
The crops are all in and the peaches are rotting,
Bb F Bb
The oranges are piled in their creosote dumps,
Eb Bb
You're flying them back to the Mexican border,
Bb F Bb
To pay all their money to wade back again.
Eb F/Eb Bb Gm7
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita,
F Bb Bb/D
Adios mis a-mi-gos, Jesus and Maria,
Ebmaj7 Bb Gm
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane,
Bb/F F Bb Eb Cm7 Eb/F F
All they will call you will be deportee.
Bb Eb Bb
Some of us are illegal and some of us are not wanted,
Bb F Bb
Our work contracts out and we have to move on,
Eb Bb
But it's 600 miles to that Mexican border,
Bb F Bb
They chase us like outlaws, like rustlers, like thieves.
Eb F/Eb Bb Gm7
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita,
F Bb Bb/D
Adios mis a-mi-gos, Jesus and Maria,
Ebmaj7 Bb/D Gm7
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane,
Bb/F F Bb Eb/Bb Cm7 Gdim7/F F
All they will call you will be deportee.
Bb Eb Bb
My father's own father, waded that river,
Bb F Bb
They took all the money he made in his life,
Eb Bb
My brothers and sisters come working the fruit trees,
Bb F Bb
They rode the truck til' they took down and died.
Bb Eb Bb
The airplane caught fire over Los Gatos canyon,
Bb F Bb
A fireball of lightning that shook all our hills,
Eb Bb
Who are these dear friends all scattered like dry leaves,
Bb F Cm7
The radio said they were just deportees.
Eb Bb
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita,
F Bb
Adios mis a-mi-gos, Jesus and Maria,
Ebmaj7 Bb Gm7
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane,
Bb/F F Gm
All they will call you will be deportee,
Ebmaj7 Bb/F
Ah ah ah, woh, woh,
F Bb Eb Cm7 Eb/F F7 Bb
All they will call you will be deportee,
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