Deportee Plane Wreck At Los Gatos
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Intro
G D7 G
[Verso 1]
G C G
The crops are all in and the peaches are rotting
D7 G G7
The oranges are in the creosote dumps
C G Em
They're flying 'em back to that Mexican border
G D7 G G7
To take all their money and wade back again
[Refrão]
C G
Goodbye, my Juan, farewell, Rosalita
D7 G
Adios, mis amigos, Jesús y Maria
C G Em
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane
G D7 G
All they will call you will be deportees
[Verso 2]
G C G
My father's own father, he waded that river
D7 G G7
They took all the money he made in his life
C G Em
It's six hundred miles to that Mexican border
G D7 G G7
They chase us like rustlers, like outlaws, like thieves
[Refrão]
C G
Goodbye, my Juan, farewell, Rosalita
D7 G
Adios, mis amigos, Jesús y Maria
C G Em
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane
G D7 G
All they will call you will be deportees
Interlude
G7 C G D7 G
C G D7 G
[Verso 3]
G C G
The sky-plane caught fire at Los Gatos Canyon
D7 G G7
A fireball of lightning, it shook all our hills
C G Em
Who are these comrades who are scattered like dry leaves?
G D G G7
Radio tells us they're just deportees
[Refrão]
C G
Goodbye, my Juan, farewell, Rosalita
D7 G
Adios, mis amigos, Jesús y Maria
C G Em
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane
G D7 G
All they will call you will be deportees
Outro
G D G
All they will call you will be deportees
How to play Deportee Plane Wreck At Los Gatos
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