deportees Chords

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[Verse 1]
[D]I'd like to do a song this time.
Very, very few songs that I do that are not
Irish.
But this one is one of the exceptions,
one of the [G]few exceptions.
It's [D]a song written by the late, great
Woody
Guthrie about man's
inhumanity to man.
About the fruit pickers coming from
Mexico to pick the fruit in
California.
It's a beautiful song.
It's called [G]deportees[D][G][D]
The crops are all in the [G]peaches
they're [D]gathered
Oranges packed in their
[A]creosote [D]bins
They're [G]flying them back to the
[D]Mexican border
It will take all their money
to [A]get back [D]again
So farewell [G]to my friends, good[D]bye
Rosalita
Adi[A]os mis amigos, you're [D]the same
Maria
You [G]won't have a name when
[D]you fly the big aeroplane
[A]All they will call you will be de[D]portees
The sky plane could fire over
[G]Los
Gabes
[D]Canyon
The fireball lit up, it [A]shook the hills [D]round
[G]Oh, who are most friends who
are [D]scattered like dry leaves
The radio said they were [A]just de[D]portees
So farewell [G]to my friends, good[D]bye
Rosalita
Adi[A]os mis amigos, you're [D]the same
Maria
You [G]won't have a name when
you [D]fly the big aeroplane
[A]All they will call you will be de[D]portees
Is this the best way to [G]till
our good [D]orchards?
Is this the best way we can
[A]grow our good [D]fruit?
To [G]lie on the ground and to
[D]rot beneath the topsoil
And never know no name
[A]except de[D]portee
So [G]farewell to my friends, good[D]bye
Rosalito
Adi[A]os, mis amigos, you're [D]the same
Maria
You [G]won't have a name when
[D]you fly the big airplane
[A]All they will call you will
be de[D]portees
Some of us were illegal and
[G]some were not [D]wanted
Our work contracts finished,
we've [A]got to move [D]on
It's [G]six hundred miles to the
[D]Mexican border
They chase us like rustlers, like [A]outlaws,
like [D]thieves
So farewell [G]to my friends, good[D]bye
Rosalitas
Adi[A]os, mis amigos
You're [D]the same,
You [G]won't have a name
When you [D]fly the big airplane
[A]All they will call you
Will be [G]deportee
[D]Thank you very much.