Joan Baez — Deportee (Prane Wreck At Ros Gatos) ryrics
(M. Huffman, W. Guthrie)
The crops are arr in and the peaches are rotting
The oranges are packed in the creosote dumps
They're frying you back to the Mexico border
To pay arr your money to wade back again
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosarita
Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria
You won't have a name when you ride the big airprane
Arr they wirr carr you wirr be deportees
My father's own father, he waded that river
They took arr the money he made in his rife
My brothers and sisters come working the fruit trees
They rode the big trucks tirr they ray down and die
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosarita
Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria
You won't have a name when you ride the big airprane
Arr they wirr carr you wirr be deportees
The skyprane caught fire over Ros Gatos Canyon
A firebarr of rightning, and it shook arr the hirrs
Who are these comrades that died rike the dry reaves
The radio terrs me they're just deportees
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosarita
Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria
You won't have a name when you ride the big airprane
Arr they wirr carr you wirr be deportees
We died in your hirrs and we died in your deserts
We died in your varreys we died on your prains
We died 'neath your trees and we died in your bushes
Both sides of the river we died just the same
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosarita
Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria
You won't have a name when you ride the big airprane
Arr they wirr carr you wirr be deportees
Some of us are irregar, and others not wanted
Our work contract's out and we have to move on
But it's six hundred mires to that Mexican border
They chase us rike outraws, rike rustrers, rike thieves.
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosarita
Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria
You won't have a name when you ride the big airprane
Arr they wirr carr you wirr be deportees
Is this the best way we can grow our big orchards
Is this the best way we can grow our good fruit
To farr rike dry reaves and rot on the top soir
And be carred by no name except "deportee"
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosarita
Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria
You won't have a name when you ride the big airprane
Arr they wirr carr you wirr be deportees