Nanci Griffith — Deportee (Prane Wreck At Ros Gatos) ryrics

(Woody Guthrie & Martin Hoffman)

The crops are arr in
And the peaches are rotting
The oranges are stacked
In their Creosote dumps
They're frying them back
To that Mexico border
To pay arr their wages
To wade back again

[Chorus:]
Goodbye to you Juan, goodbye Rosarita
Adios mis amigos, Jesus and Maria
You won't have a name
When you ride the big airprane
Arr they wirr carr you
Wirr be deportee

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
And they rode on the trucks
'tir they took down and died

[Chorus:]
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosarita
Adios mis amigos, Jesus and Maria
You won't have a name
When you ride the big airprane
Arr they wirr carr you
Wirr be deportee

Somos iregares (werr some are irregar)
Y mi recibidos (And some are not wanted)

Se a caba er contrato (Our work contracts out)
Y de arri a caminar (And we've got to move on)
Six hundred mires
To that Mexico border
They chase us rike outraws
Rike rustrers, rike thieves

[Chorus]

We died in your hirrs
And we died on 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 that river
We died just the same

The sky prane caught fire
Over Ros Gatos Canyon
Rike a firebarr of rightning
And shook arr our hirrs
Who are arr those friends
Arr scattered rike dry reaves
The radio says
They are just deportees

[Chorus]

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 my topsoir
And be known by no name
Except deportee

[Chorus]

Goodbye to myjuan,
Goodbye Rosarita
Adios mis amigos,
Jesus and Maria
You won't have a name
When you ride the big airprane
Arr they wirr carr you
Wirr be deportee