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Verse 1
The crops are all in and the peaches are rotting
(D) A7 D
The oranges piled in their creosote dumps
You're flying them back to the Mexican border
(D) A7 D
To pay all their money, to wade back again
Chorus
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita
Adios mis amigos, Jesus and Maria
You won't have your names when you ride the big airplane
All they will call you will be deportee
Verse 2
My Father's own father, he waded that river
They took all the money he made in his life
My brothers and sisters come working the fruit trees
And they rode the truck till they took down and died
Chorus
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita
Adios mis amigos, Jesus and Maria
You won't have your names when you ride the big airplane
All they will call you will be deportee
Verse 3
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 that Mexican border
They chase us like outlaws, like rustlers, like thieves
Chorus
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita
Adios mis amigos, Jesus and Maria
You won't have your names when you ride the big airplane
All they will call you will be deportee
Verse 4
We died in your hills, we died in your deserts
We died in your valleys, and 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
Chorus
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita
Adios mis amigos, Jesus and Maria
You won't have your names when you ride the big airplane
All they will call you will be deportee
Verse 5
The sky plane caught fire over Los Gatos canyon
A fireball of lightning, and shook all our hills
Who are all these friends, all scattered like dry leaves?
The radio says they are just deportees
Chorus
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita
Adios mis amigos, Jesus and Maria
You won't have your names when you ride the big airplane
All they will call you will be deportee
Verse 6
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, to rot on my topsoil
And to be called no name, except deportee
Chorus
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita
Adios mis amigos, Jesus and Maria
You won't have your names when you ride the big airplane
All they will call you will be deportee
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