Deportees

D G D The crops are all in, the peaches are gathered D A7 D Oranges packed in their creosote bins G D They're flying them back to the Mexico border D A D To take all their money to get back again G D So farewell to my friends, good-bye Rosalita A D Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maris G D You won't have a name when you fly the big aeroplane A D All they will call you will be deportees. D G D The sky-plane caught fire over Los Gatos canyon D A7 D The fireball lit up and it shook the hills round G D Oh who were those friends that were scattered like dry leaves? D A The radio said they were just deportees. G D So farewell to my friends, good-bye Rosalita A D Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maris G D You won't have a name when you fly the big aeroplane A D All they will call you will be deportees. D G D Is this the best way to till our good orchards? D A D Is this the best way we can grow our good fruit? G D To lie on the ground and to rot 'neath the topsoil D A D And never know no name except deportees? G D So farewell to my friends, good-bye Rosalita A D Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maris G D You won't have a name when you fly the big aeroplane A D All they will call you will be deportees. D G D Some of us are illegal, and some were not wanted, D A D Our work contract's finished and wev'e got to move on G D It's six hundred miles to the Mexican border, D A D They chase us like rustlers, like outlaws, like thieves. G D So farewell to my friends, good-bye Rosalita A D Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maris G D You won't have a name when you fly the big aeroplane A D All they will call you will be deportees.