Deportee

Peter, Paul and Mary

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Peter, Paul and Mary

Peter, Paul and Mary were a US folk-singing trio whose nearly 50-year career began with their rise to become a paradigm for 1960s folk music. The trio was composed of Peter Yarrow, Paul Stookey and Mary Travers. After the death of Mary Travers in 2009, Yarrow and Stookey continued to perform as a duo under their individual names. more »


Year:
1995
5:02
191 
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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
Our work contract's out and we have to move on
600 miles to that mexican border
They chase us like outlaws, like thieves on the run

Chorus
Goodbye to my juan, good-bye rosalita
Adios mis amigos, jesus why maria
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane
All they will call you will be deportee

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

Chorus

We died in your hills, we died in your deserts
We died in your valleys and we died on your plains
We died 'neath your trees and we died in your bushes
Both sides of the river, we died just the same

Is this the best way we can grow our big orchards?
Is this the best way we can grow our good fruit?
To fall like dry leaves and to rot on the topsoil
And be called by no name except
Deportees?

Chorus

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Written by: MARTIN HOFFMAN, WOODY GUTHRIE

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