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Deportee Lyrics by Marion Raw

Deep Cuts

2020

The crops are all in and the peaches are rotting
The oranges are piled in their creosote dumps
They're sending them back to the Mexican border
To spend all their money to wade back again

Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye, Rosalita
Adiós mis amigos, Jesus y María
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane
'Cause all they will call you will be "deportees"

My father and their fathers, they waded the river
They took all the money they made in their lives
My brothers, my sisters can work in the fruit trees
And ride that damn truck 'til they drop down and die

Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye, Rosalita
Adiós mis amigos, Jesus y María
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane
All they will call you will be "deportees"

Some of us are legal and some are not wanted
When our contract's up we'll have to move on
It's 600 miles to the Mexican border
And they'll chase us like outlaws, like wrestlers, like thieves

Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye, Rosalita
Adiós mis amigos, Jesus y María
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane
All they will call you will be "deportees"

We die in the hills and we die in the desert
We die in the valleys, we die in the plains
We die in the trees and we die in the bushes
Both sides of the river, we die just the same

Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye, Rosalita
Adiós mis amigos, Jesus y María
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane
All they will call you will be "deportees"
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About “Deportee” by Marion Raw

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"Deportee" appears on "Deep Cuts" in 2020.

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