#----------------------------------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. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------# # 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