Cover art for Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos) by Dolly Parton

Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)

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Nov. 17, 19801 viewer

Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos) Lyrics

[Verse 1]
The crops are all in and the peaches are rotting
The oranges are piled in their creosote dumps
You're flying them back to the Mexican border
To pay all their money to wade back again

[Chorus]
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita
Adios mis a-mi-gos, Jesus and Maria
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane
All they will call you will be deportee

[Verse 2]
Some of us are illegal and some of us are not wanted
Our work contract's out and we have to move on
But it's 600 miles to that Mexican border
They chase us like outlaws, like rustlers, like thieves

[Chorus]
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita
Adios mis a-mi-gos, Jesus and Maria
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane
All they will call you will be deportee

[Verse 3]
My father's own father, waded that river
They took all the money he made in his life
My brothers and sister come work the fruit trees
They rode the truck til' they took down and died
[Verse 4]
The airplane caught fire over Los Gatos Canyon
A fireball of lightning that shook all our hills
Who are these dear friends all scattered like dry leaves
The radio said they were just deportees

[Chorus]
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita
Adios mis a-mi-gos, Jesus and Maria
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane
All they will call you will be deportee

[Outro]
No, all they will call you will be deportee
All they will call you will be deportee

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November 17, 1980
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