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Deportee (Plane Crash at Los Gatos)
Joni Mitchell
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The crops are all in and the peaches are rotting
The oranges are piled in their creosote dumps
They're flying us back to the Mexico border
To pay all our money to wade back again
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Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita
Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane
No, all they will call you will be deportee
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Now my father's own father, he waded that river
They took all the money he made in his life
Six hundred miles to the Mexico border
They chased us like rustlers, like outlaws, like thieves
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita
Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane
No, all they will call you will be deportee
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The skybird caught fire over Los Gatos Canyon
A big ball of fire, it shook all the ground
Who are these friends who are falling like dry leaves?
The radio said they're just deportees
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita
Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane
No, all they will call you will be deportee
But we died in your hills and we died in your valleys
We died in your orchards, we died on your plains
We died on your deserts, we died in your treetops
Both sides of the river, we died just the same
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Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita
Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane
No, all they will call you will be deportee
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