Deportees-Cisco Houston

[ti:Deportees] [ar:Cisco Houston/Josh White] [al:This Land Is Your Land, 50 Messages of Protest Vol. 1] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Deportees - Cisco Houston [00:02.92]The crops are all in and the peaches are rotting [00:07.23] [00:08.12]The oranges are stacked in their creosote dumps [00:11.81] [00:12.98]They're flying them back to that Mexico border [00:16.98] [00:17.86]To pay all their wages to wade back again [00:21.84] [00:22.85]Goodbye to my Juan goodbye Rosalita [00:26.97] [00:27.92]Adios mi amigo Jesus and Maria [00:31.85] [00:32.95]You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane [00:37.15] [00:37.68]And all they will call you will be deportees [00:43.77] [00:45.53]My father's own father he waded that river [00:49.85] [00:50.58]They took all the money he made in his life [00:54.93] [00:55.50]My brothers and sisters come working the fruit trees [01:00.47]And they rode on the trucks till they took down and died [01:05.35]Goodbye to my Juan goodbye Rosalita [01:09.80] [01:10.40]Adios mi amigo Jesus and Maria [01:14.38] [01:15.11]You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane [01:19.46] [01:19.98]And all they will call you will be deportee [01:25.58] [01:26.71]Well some are illegal and some are not wanted [01:30.88] [01:31.72]Our work contract's out and we've got to move on [01:36.62]Six hundred miles to that Mexico border [01:41.58]They chase us like outlaws like rustlers like thieves [01:46.49]Goodbye to my Juan goodbye Rosalita [01:50.98] [01:51.48]Adios mi amigo Jesus and Maria [01:55.74] [01:56.34]You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane [02:00.62] [02:01.44]And all they will call you will be deportee [02:06.61] [02:28.19]We died in your hillsand we died on your deserts [02:32.29] [02:33.08]We died in your valleys we died on your plains [02:38.18]We died 'neath your trees and we died in your bushes [02:42.42] [02:43.02]Both sides of that river we died just the same [02:47.62] [02:48.30]Goodbye to my Juan goodbye Rosalita [02:52.54] [02:53.24]Adios mi amigo Jesus and Maria [02:57.07] [02:57.83]You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane [03:02.87]And all they will call you will be deportee [03:08.50] [03:09.63]The sky plane caught fire over Los Gatos Canyon [03:13.83] [03:14.47]Like a fireball of lightning and shook all our hills [03:19.11] [03:20.48]Who are all these friends all scattered like dry leaves [03:25.48]The radio says they are just deportees [03:29.87] [03:30.41]Goodbye to my Juan goodbye Rosalita [03:34.77] [03:35.32]Adios mi amigo Jesus and Maria [03:39.25] [03:39.99]You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane [03:44.43] [03:45.00]And all they will call you will be deportees [03:50.37] [03:51.63]Is this the best way we can grow our big orchards [03:56.08] [03:56.60]Is this the best way we can grow our good fruit [04:00.73] [04:01.80]To fall like dry leaves and rot on my topsoil [04:06.60]And be known by no name except deportee [04:11.17] [04:11.79]Goodbye to my Juan goodbye Rosalita [04:15.97] [04:16.74]Adios mi amigo Jesus and Maria [04:20.81] [04:21.47]You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane [04:26.01] [04:26.56]And all they will call you will be deportee