G   C   G


[Verse 1]
G                            C           G
The crops are all in and the peaches are rotting
                             C        G
The oranges are piled in the creosote dumps
        C                      G       Em
They're flying you back to the Mexican border
   G                      C          G
To pay all your money and wade back again


[Verse 2]
G                          C          G
My father's own father, he waded that river
                           C           G
They took all the money he made in his life
   C                         G           Em
My brothers and sisters came working the fruit trees
     G                             C        G
They rode on their truck till they lay down and die


[Chorus]
    C               G
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita
 D7               G          G7
Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria
    C                          G            Em
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane
    G                           C    G
All all they will call you will be deportees


[Verse 3]
G                           C          G
Some of us are illegal, and others not wanted
                               C           G
Our work contract's out and we got to move on
     C                         G       Em
It's six hundred miles to that Mexican border
     G                           C         G
They chase us like outlaws, like rustlers, like thieves


[Verse 4]
G                            C       G
We died on your hills and we died on your deserts
                           C            G
We died in your valleys we died on your plains
      C                                G            Em
We've died 'neath your trees and we've died in your bushes
G                              C         G
Both sides of that river we've died just the same


[Chorus]
    C               G
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita
 D7               G          G7
Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria
    C                          G            Em
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane
    G                           C    G
All all they will call you will be deportees


[Guitar Solo]
G   C   G


[Verse 5]
G                             C         G
The skyplane caught fire over Los Gatos Canyon
                                C         G
A fireball of lightning, and it shook all our hills
    C                                      Em
Who are these chicanos that scattered like dry leaves
    G                   C         G
The radio tells they're just deportees


[Verse 6]
G                           C             G
Is this the best way we can grow our good orchards
                            C        G
Is this the best way we can grow our good fruit
   C                        G          Em
To fall like dry leaves and rot on the top soil
    G                      C       G
And be called by no name except "deportee"


[Chorus]
    C               G
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita
 D7               G          G7
Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria
    C                          G            Em
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane
    G                           C    G
All all they will call you will be deportees