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Date: Thu, 01 May 1997 18:57:24 -0400
From: James Cloutier <giacomo@ici.net>
Subject: Lyrics Submissions
Please accept the following lyric submission. The song is "Deportee
(Plane Wreck At Los Gatos), recorded by the Highwaymen. The song was on
the album (CD) Highwayman. I have made a notation to which key it is
played in and the timing.
DEPORTEE (PLANE WRECK AT LOS GATOS) Recorded by: HIGHWAYMEN
Key of: C 3/4 time
The crops are all in and the peaches are rotten
The oranges are packed and the creosote dumped
They're flyin' them back to the Mexican border
To save all their money then wade back again.
My father's own father, he waded that river
Other's before him had done just the same
They died in the hills and they died in the valley
Some went to heaven without any name.
**
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita
Adios mi amigo; Jesus i Maria
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane
All they will call you, will be: "Deportee" **
Some of us are illegal and others not wanted
Our work contract's out and we have to move on
Six hundred miles to the Mexican border
They chase us like rustlers, like outlaws, like thieves.
(** **)
The sky plane caught fire over Los Gatos canyon
A fireball of thunder that shook all the hills
Who are all of these dear friends, gathered like dry leaves
The radio said they were just 'deportees'
(** **) - Twice