In the spirit of the meme going around where you post an anti-war song, let’s have a meme where you post a song related to immigration. Here’s my entry:
Woody Guthrie/Martin Hoffman.
(c) 1961, 1963 Ludlow Music, Inc., BMI
The crops are all in, the peaches are rotting The oranges piled in their creosote dumps They’re flying us back to the Mexican border To pay all our money just to wade back again Some of us are illegal and some are not wanted
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The sky plane caught fire over Los Gatos canyon A fireball of lightning that shook all the hills Who are these friends now all scattered like dry leaves? The radio says they are just deportees
We died in your hills, we died in your deserts Is this the best way we can grow our big orchards?
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