Intro
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The crops are all in and the peaches are rotting
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The oranges are packed in their creosote dumps
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They're flying 'em back to that Mexico border
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To take all their money to wade back a gain
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My father's own father, he waded that river
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They took all the money he made in his life
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My brothers and sisters come working the fruit trees
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They rode the big trucks till they lay down and died
Chorus
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Good bye to my Juan, good bye Rosalita
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Adi os mis amigos, Je sus y Maria
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You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane
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And all they will call you will be depor tee
Verse
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Some of us are illegal, and all are not wanted
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Our work contract's out and we've got to move on
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Six hundred miles to that Mexican border
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They chase us like outlaws, like rustlers, like thieves
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We died in your hills, we died in your deserts
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We died in your armies, we died on your plains
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We died 'neath your trees and we died 'neath those bushes
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Both sides of that river, we died just the same
Chorus
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The sky plane caught fire over Los Gatos Canyon
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Like a fireball of lightning, it shook all our hills
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Who are all these friends, dying like dry leaves?
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The radio says they are just depor tees
Verse
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Is this the best way we can grow our big orchards?
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Is this the best way we can grow our good fruit?
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To fall like dry leaves and rot on my topsoil
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And be known by no name ex cept depor tee
Chorus
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The sky plane caught fire over Los Gatos Canyon
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Like a fireball of lightning, it shook all our hills
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Who are all these friends, dying like dry leaves?
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The radio says they are just depor tees