Deportee

Johnny Cash

The crops are all in, and the peaches are rotten

The oranges are all packed in the creosote dumps

They're flying them back to the Mexican Border

To save all their money, and wade back again



Johnny Rodriguez

My father's own father, he waded that river

Others before him have done just the same

They died in the hills, and they've died in the valley

Some went to heaven, without any name



Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson and Johnny Rodriguez

Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita

Adios mi amigo, Jesus and Maria

You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane

All they will call you will be "Deportee"



Johnny Cash

Some of us are illegal, and others not wanted

Our work contracts out, and we have to move on

(Nelson)

Six-hundred miles to the Mexican Border

They chase us like rustlers, like outlaws, like thieves



Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson and Johnny Rodriguez

Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita

Adios mi amigo, Jesus and Maria

You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane

All they will call you will be "Deportee"



Johnny Cash

The sky-plane caught fire, over Los Gatos Canyon

A fireball a thunder, it shook all the hills

(Nelson)

Who are all these dear friends, scattered like dry leaves?

The radio said they were just deportees



Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita 

(Adios a mi Juan, adios Rosalita)

Adios mi amigo, Jesus and Maria 

(Adios a mi amigo, Jesus y Maria)

You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane 

(no tendrá un nombre en el aeroplano)

All they will call you will be "Deportee" 

(le llamarán serán "Deportee")



Goodbye to my Juan

Adios a mi Juan

Goodbye Rosalita

Adios Rosalita

Adios mi amegos, Jesus and Maria

(Adios a mi amigo, Jesus y Maria)

You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane

No tendrá un nombre en el aeroplano

All they will call you 

Le llamarán serán

will be 

va a hacer

Deportee