Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)
Woody Guthrie (1948)
3/4 | d - D - D - |
1 2 3
The | [F] crops are all | in, and the | [Bb] peaches are | [F] rotting | [F]
The | [F] oranges are | piled in their | [Bb] creosote | [F] dumps | [F]
You're | [Bb] flying them | back to the | [F] Mexico | [Dm] border
To | [F] pay all your | [Dm] money, to | [Bb] wade back a- | [F] gain | [F]
My [F] Father's own father, he [Bb] waded that [F] river [F]
They [F] took all the money he [Bb] made in his [F] life [F]
My [Bb] brothers and sisters come [F] working the fruit [Dm] trees
And [F] they rode the [Dm] truck till they [Bb] took down and [F] died [F]
Chorus
Good- | [Bb] bye to my | Juan, good- | [F] bye Rosa- | lita
Adi- | [C7] os mes a- | migos, Je- | [F] sus and Ma- | ria
You | [Bb] won't have a | name when you | [F] ride the big | [Dm] airplane
| [F] All they will | [Dm] call you will | [Bb] be depor- | [F] tees | [F]
[F] Some of us are illegal, and [Bb] others not [F] wanted [F]
Our [F] work contracts [Dm] out and we [Bb] have to move [F] on [F]
Six [Bb] hundred miles to that [F] Mexico [Dm] border
They [F] chase us like [Dm] outlaws, like [Bb] rustlers and [F] thieves [F]
We [F] died in your hills, we [Bb] died in your [F] deserts [F]
We [F] died in your valleys, we [Bb] died on your [F] plains [F]
We [Bb] died in your trees, and we [F] died in your [Dm] bushes
Both [F] sides of the [Dm] river, we've [Bb] died just the [F] same [F]
Chorus
Good- | [Bb] bye to my | Juan, good- | [F] bye Rosa- | lita
Adi- | [C7] os mes a- | migos, Je- | [F] sus and Ma- | ria
You | [Bb] won't have your | names when you | [F] ride the big | [Dm] airplane
| [F] All they will | [Dm] call you will | [Bb] be depor- | [F] tees | [F]
The [F] sky plane caught fire over [Bb] Los Gatos can- [F] yon [F]
A [F] fireball of lightning, and [Bb] shook all our [F] hills [F]
[Bb] Who are all these friends, all [F] scattered like [Dm] dry leaves?
The [F] radio [Dm] says they are [Bb] just depor- [F] tees [F]
Is [F] this the best way we can [Bb] grow our big [F] orchards? [F]
Is [F] this the best [Dm] way we can [Bb] grow our good [F] fruit? [F]
To [Bb] fall like like dry leaves, to [F] rot on your [Dm] topsoil
And [F] be known by [Dm] no name, ex- [Bb] cept depor- [F] tees. [F]
Chorus
Good- | [Bb] bye to my | Juan, good- | [F] bye Rosa- | lita
Adi- | [C7] os mes a- | migos, Je- | [F] sus and Ma- | ria
You | [Bb] won't have your | names when you | [F] ride the big | [Dm] airplane
| [F] All they will | [Dm] call you will | [Bb] be depor- | [F] tees | [F]
#Play along with the Arlo Guthrie in this key.
#Play along with this alternate version in the key of D.
#Last Updated 4/23/19 JJ
Visit UkeboxLessons
Woody Guthrie (1948)
3/4 | d - D - D - |
1 2 3
The | [F] crops are all | in, and the | [Bb] peaches are | [F] rotting | [F]
The | [F] oranges are | piled in their | [Bb] creosote | [F] dumps | [F]
You're | [Bb] flying them | back to the | [F] Mexico | [Dm] border
To | [F] pay all your | [Dm] money, to | [Bb] wade back a- | [F] gain | [F]
My [F] Father's own father, he [Bb] waded that [F] river [F]
They [F] took all the money he [Bb] made in his [F] life [F]
My [Bb] brothers and sisters come [F] working the fruit [Dm] trees
And [F] they rode the [Dm] truck till they [Bb] took down and [F] died [F]
Chorus
Good- | [Bb] bye to my | Juan, good- | [F] bye Rosa- | lita
Adi- | [C7] os mes a- | migos, Je- | [F] sus and Ma- | ria
You | [Bb] won't have a | name when you | [F] ride the big | [Dm] airplane
| [F] All they will | [Dm] call you will | [Bb] be depor- | [F] tees | [F]
[F] Some of us are illegal, and [Bb] others not [F] wanted [F]
Our [F] work contracts [Dm] out and we [Bb] have to move [F] on [F]
Six [Bb] hundred miles to that [F] Mexico [Dm] border
They [F] chase us like [Dm] outlaws, like [Bb] rustlers and [F] thieves [F]
We [F] died in your hills, we [Bb] died in your [F] deserts [F]
We [F] died in your valleys, we [Bb] died on your [F] plains [F]
We [Bb] died in your trees, and we [F] died in your [Dm] bushes
Both [F] sides of the [Dm] river, we've [Bb] died just the [F] same [F]
Chorus
Good- | [Bb] bye to my | Juan, good- | [F] bye Rosa- | lita
Adi- | [C7] os mes a- | migos, Je- | [F] sus and Ma- | ria
You | [Bb] won't have your | names when you | [F] ride the big | [Dm] airplane
| [F] All they will | [Dm] call you will | [Bb] be depor- | [F] tees | [F]
The [F] sky plane caught fire over [Bb] Los Gatos can- [F] yon [F]
A [F] fireball of lightning, and [Bb] shook all our [F] hills [F]
[Bb] Who are all these friends, all [F] scattered like [Dm] dry leaves?
The [F] radio [Dm] says they are [Bb] just depor- [F] tees [F]
Is [F] this the best way we can [Bb] grow our big [F] orchards? [F]
Is [F] this the best [Dm] way we can [Bb] grow our good [F] fruit? [F]
To [Bb] fall like like dry leaves, to [F] rot on your [Dm] topsoil
And [F] be known by [Dm] no name, ex- [Bb] cept depor- [F] tees. [F]
Chorus
Good- | [Bb] bye to my | Juan, good- | [F] bye Rosa- | lita
Adi- | [C7] os mes a- | migos, Je- | [F] sus and Ma- | ria
You | [Bb] won't have your | names when you | [F] ride the big | [Dm] airplane
| [F] All they will | [Dm] call you will | [Bb] be depor- | [F] tees | [F]
#Play along with the Arlo Guthrie in this key.
#Play along with this alternate version in the key of D.
#Last Updated 4/23/19 JJ
Visit UkeboxLessons