\nThe crops are all in, the peaches are rotting
\nThe oranges piled in their creosote dumps
\nThey’re flying us back to the Mexican border
\nTo pay all our money just to wade back again<\/p>\nSome of us are illegal and some are not wanted
\nOur work contract’s out and we have to move on
\n600 miles to that Mexican border
\nThey chase us like outlaws, like thieves on the run<\/p>\n chorus<\/i><\/u>
\nGoodbye to my Juan, good-bye Rosalita
\nAdios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria
\nYou won’t have a name when you ride the big airplane
\nAll they will call you will be deportee<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/td>\n <\/td>\n | The sky plane caught fire over Los Gatos canyon
\nA fireball of lightning that shook all the hills
\nWho are these friends now all scattered like dry leaves?
\nThe radio says they are just deportees<\/p>\nchorus<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n We died in your hills, we died in your deserts
\nWe died in your valleys and we died on your plains
\nWe died ‘neath your trees and we died in your bushes
\nBoth sides of the river, we died just the same<\/p>\n Is this the best way we can grow our big orchards?
\nIs this the best way we can grow our good fruit?
\nTo fall like dry leaves and to rot on the topsoil
\nAnd be called by no name except
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