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
