Deportee (Woody's Home Tape)
Words and Music by Woody Guthrie
Contact Publisher - TRO-Essex Music Group
Your crops are all in
And your fruit balls are rottening;
Your oranges are stacked
In your creosote dumps;
You’re flying me back to your ol’ Mexican border
To pay all my money to walk back again
Goodbye to you, Juan;
Goodbye, Rosalita;
Adios mis amigos, Jesus and Marie;
I don’t have a name when I ride this big airplane;
They just call me, “One more deportee”
My father's own father
He waded this river;
You took all the money he made in his life;
My sisters and brothers
Come up picking your fruit crops;
To ride your wild trucks and die off like flies
Some days I’m not legal;
Some days I’m not wanted;
My contract is gone, so I hafta move on;
More than six hundred miles
You chase me towards that border
Worse than maddogs or thieves or outlaws, either one.
Goodbye to you, Juan;
Goodbye, Rosalita;
Adios mis amigos, Jesus and Marie;
I don’t have a name when I ride this big airplane;
They just call me, “One more deportee”
I fell dead in your hills,
I fell dead in your valleys;
Fell dead on your desert and sick on your plains;
You killed me in trees;
And you killed me in bushes;
On both sides of the Rio I die just the same
Goodbye to you, Juan;
Goodbye, Rosalita;
Adios mis amigos, Jesus and Marie;
I don’t have a name when I ride this big airplane;
They just call me, “One more deportee”
Our sky plane caught fire
Over Los Gatos Canyon;
My fireball of lightning shook down all your hills;
I see all my good friends
Blow here just like dry leaves;
The radio calls us “Just some more deportees”.
Is this the best way
You can grow our big orchard?
Is this the best system to grow some good fruit?
To die in your aircrate
To fertilize your topsoil?
To be called by no name, except “one more deportee”?
Goodbye to you, Juan;
Goodbye, Rosalita;
Adios mis amigos, Jesus and Marie;
I don’t have a name when I ride this big airplane;
They just call me, “One more deportee”
© 1961 (renewed) by Woody Guthrie Publications, Inc. & TRO-Ludlow Music, Inc. (BMI)
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