Artisto: | Various (English) |
Uzanto: | Waeller Wutz |
Daŭro: | 130 sekundoj |
Komenca paŭzo: | 12 sekundoj |
Tononoma sistemo: | Bazvalorа |
Sakra: | |
Komentoj pri tabulaturo: | - |
Titel: Deportee
(Text: Woody Guthrie, Musik: Martin Hoffman)
G C G
The crops are all in and the peaches are rott'ning,
D7 G
The oranges piled in their creosote dumps;
C G
They're flying 'em back to the Mexican border
D7 G
To pay all their money to wade back again
C G
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye, Rosalita,
D7 G
Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria;
C G
You won't have your names when you ride the big airplane,
D7 G
All they will call you will be "deportees"
G C G
My father's own father, he waded that river,
D7 G
They took all the money he made in his life;
C G
My brothers and sisters come working the fruit trees,
D7 G
And they rode the truck till they took down and died.
G C G
Some of us are illegal, and some are not wanted,
D7 G
Our work contract's out and we have to move on;
C G
Six hundred miles to that Mexican border,
D7 G
They chase us like outlaws, like rustlers, like thieves.
C G
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye, Rosalita,
D7 G
Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria;
C G
You won't have your names when you ride the big airplane,
D7 G
All they will call you will be "deportees"
G C G
We died in your hills, we died in your deserts,
D7 G
We died in your valleys and died on your plains.
C G
We died 'neath your trees and we died in your bushes,
D7 G
Both sides of the river, we died just the same.
G C G
The sky plane caught fire over Los Gatos Canyon,
D7 G
A fireball of lightning, and shook all our hills,
C G
Who are all these friends, all scattered like dry leaves?
D7 G
The radio says, "They are just deportees"
C G
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye, Rosalita,
D7 G
Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria;
C G
You won't have your names when you ride the big airplane,
D7 G
All they will call you will be "deportees"
G C G
Is this the best way we can grow our big orchards?
D7 G
Is this the best way we can grow our good fruit?
C G
To fall like dry leaves to rot on my topsoil
D7 G
And be called by no name except "deportees"?