Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Deportee , by - Peter, Paul and Mary. Song from the album LifeLines, in the genre ПопRelease date: 31.12.1994
Record label: Warner
Song language: English
Deportee |
| The crops are all in, the peaches are rotting |
| The oranges piled in their creosote dumps |
| They’re flying us back to the Mexican border |
| To pay all our money just to wade back again |
| Some of us are illegal and some are not wanted |
| Our work contract’s out and we have to move on |
| 600 miles to that Mexican border |
| They chase us like outlaws, like thieves on the run |
| Goodbye to my Juan, good-bye Rosalita |
| Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria |
| You won’t have a name when you ride the big airplane |
| All they will call you will be deportee |
| The sky plane caught fire over Los Gatos canyon |
| A fireball of lightning that shook all the hills |
| Who are these friends now all scattered like dry leaves? |
| The radio says they are just deportees |
| We died in your hills, we died in your deserts |
| We died in your valleys and we died on your plains |
| We died 'neath your trees and we died in your bushes |
| Both sides of the river, we died just the same |
| Is this the best way we can grow our big orchards? |
| Is this the best way we can grow our good fruit? |
| To fall like dry leaves and to rot on the topsoil |
| And be called by no name except |
| Deportees? |