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Deportee (Plane Wreck At Los Gatos)
Emmylou Harris
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Joan Baez
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Jackson Browne
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We're gonna make it a trio out here
Jackson Browne
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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 'em back to that Mexican border
To pay all their money and wade back again
My father's own father, he waded that river
They took all the money he made in his life
My brothers and sisters came working the fruit trees
They rode on that truck 'til they took down and died
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita
Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane
All they will call you will be deportees
Some of us are illegal, and others not wanted
Our work contract's out and we got to move on
Six hundred miles to that Mexican border
They chase us like outlaws, like rustlers, like thieves
We've died in your hills, we died in your deserts
We've died in your valleys, we died on your plains
We've died 'neath your trees and we've died in your bushes
Both sides of the river, we died just the same
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita
Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane
All they will call you will be deportees
The sky plane caught fire over Los Gatos Canyon
A fireball of lightning shook all our hills
Who are all these friends, all scattered like dry leaves?
The radio says that they're just deportees
Is this the best way we can grow our good orchards?
Is this the best way we can grow our good fruit?
They fall like dry leaves and rot on the topsoil
And be called by no name except 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
And all they will call you will be deportees
And all they will call you will be deportees
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Thank you, see you later
Thank you, Jackson and Emmylou
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