#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------# # From [email protected] Sun Apr 27 11:36:27 1997 Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 02:17:06 GMT From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: Gunja Din The Byrds Chords/Words thanks to Tom Isenhour for the words please post corrections The Byrds Gunja Din written by Gene Parsons C Csus/F C Csus/F I'm writing this here letter from aboard a DC8 C Csus/F C Bb F C Heading into Angel town I hope it's not too late C Csus/F It rained in New York City C Csus/F Mr rock n roll couldn't stay C Csus/F The crowd was mad and we were had C Bb F C Chasing the sun back to L.A. G Am G Am Have breakfest with me mamma I hope they'll let us in G Am G Bb F C Got a leather jacket on I know that it's a sin Gunga Din C Csus/F C Csus/F Sitting backwards on this airplane is bound to make me sick C Csus/F Spend your life on a DC8 C Bb F C Never get to bed settle down settle down C Csus/F C Csus/F Now we're over Kansas where the clouds are floating by C Csus/F The whole wide world looks back at me C Bb F C Just like a mushroom pie I wonder why G Am G Am Have breakfest with me mamma I hope they'll let us in G Am G Bb F C Got a leather jacket on I know that it's a sin Gunja Din From the " The Ballad Of Easy Rider" LP Columbia Records 1969 The Byrds Deportee written by Woodie Guthrie/M. Hoffman D G D The crops are all in and the peaches are rotting D A D D7 The oranges are packed in their creosote green G D Your flying them back to the Mexican border A7 D To spend all their money to wade back again G D A7 D D7 Goodbye to Juan goodbye Roseleta adios mis amigos Jesus and Maria G D You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane A7 D And all they will call you will be deportee D G D Some of us are illegal and others not wanted D A D D7 Our work contracts out and we have to move on G D Six hundred miles to that Mexican border A D They chase us like outlaws like rustlers and thieves G D A7 D D7 Goodbye to Juan goodbye Roseleta adios mis amigos Jesus and Maria G D You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane A D And all they will call you will be deportee D G D The sky plane caught fire over Los Gatos canyon D A7 D A fireball of lightning it shook all our hills G D Who are all these firends who are scattered like dry leaves A7 D The radio said they were just deportees G D A7 D D7 Goodbye to Juan goodbye Roseleta adios mis amigos Jesus and Maria G D You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane A D And all they will call you will be deportee From the "The Ballad Of Easy Rider" LP Columbia Records 1969
