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Deportee - Highwaymen
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Tabbed by: Dave S.
Email: [email protected]
Tuning: Standard (CAPO 5th Fret)
Artist: The Highwaymen
Album: Highwayman
Year: 1985
Intro:
C G D G
G C G
The crops are all in and the peaches are rotting
D G
The oranges are packed in the creoste dumps
C G
They're flying them back to the Mexican border
D7 G
To save all their money and wade back again
G C D
My father's own father he waded that river
D G
Others before him have done just the same
C G
They died in the hills and they died in the valleys
D7 G
Some went to heaven with out any names
Chorus:
C G
Goodbye to my Juan, good bye Rosalita
D D7 G
Adios mi amigos, Jesus y Maria
C G
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane
D7 G
All they will call you will be Deportee
(Repeat Intro)
G C G
Some of us are illegal and others not wanted
D G
Our work contracts out and we have to move on
C G
Six hundred miles to the Mexican border
D7 G
They chase us like outlaws like rustlers, like thieves
(Repeat Chorus 2x)
G C G
The sky plane caught fire over Los Gatos canyon
D G
A fireball of thunder that shook all the hills
C G
Who are all these dear friends scattered like dry leaves
D7 G
The radio said they were just Deportees
(Repeat Chorus 2x)
