Song Lyrics Ben Harper - Deportees    [Lyrics & Song Text Archive] lyrics archive>> B>> Ben Harper Singer Lyrics [Ben Harper other resources]>> Deportees Song Lyrics Author/Artist/Singer: Ben Harper Music Title/Track: Deportees Theme ID: 18608 Album: N/A ( Words by Woody Guthrie / Music by Martin Hoffman Live performance with Ellen Verdries, his mother ) The crops are all in and the peaches are rotting, The oranges are piled in their creosote dumps. They're flying you back to the Mexico border, To pay all your oranges to wade back again. My father's own father, he waded that river, They took all the money he made in his life. My brothers and sisters come working the fruit trees, And they rode the trucks till they took down and died. Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye, 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 "deportees". Some of us are illegal, and some are not wanted, When contract is out, we've got to move on. Six hundred miles to the Mexico border, They chase us like outlaws, like rustlers, like thieves. We died in your hills, and we died in your deserts, We died in your valleys and 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. Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye, 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 "deportees". The sky plane caught fire over Los Gatos Canyon, A fireball of lightning, it shook all our hills, Who are these friends, all scattered like dry leaves? The radio says, "They are just deportees". 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 rot on our topsoil, To be known by no name except "deportees"? Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye, 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 "deportees". All they will call you will be "deportees". Related Lyrics Random lyrics: Going To See The King, Helpless, High tide or low tide, How Many Mile Must We March, I heard it through the grapewine, If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again, Ill Rise, In the sun, Indifference, Jesus is on the mainline, Jesus On The Mainline, Lay your burden down, Louis collins, Love gonna walk out on me, Mamas Trippin, Mamas Got a Girlfriend Now, Manic depression, Mary, My Own To Hands, My Own Two Hands, Not fade away, One love, Oppresion, Pay The Man, People get ready, Please Lead, Pleasure Pain, Pressure drop, Quarter Of A Man, Quarters Of A Man, Redemption song, Remember, Remember (jimi Hendrix), She Only Happy In The Sun, Shes Only Happy In The Sun, Slave driver, Strawberry fields forever, Strawberry Fields Forever (Beatle Cover), Superstition, Superstition (stevie Wonder), Sweet home chicago, Take That Attitude To Your Grave, The Drugs Dont Work, The modern world, The Wil To Live, To Be a Witness, Tomorrow is a long time, Two Hands, Two Hands Of Prayer, Voodoo child (slight return), Other Ben Harper song Lyrics (I Believe Ill) Dust My Broom Lyrics (The Beatles) Strawberry Fields Forever Lyrics All along the watchtower Lyrics Angel From Montgomery Lyrics Breakin Down Lyrics Click Yo Heels Lyrics Concrete jungle Lyrics Do right woman Lyrics Excuse Me Mister Lyrics Exodus Lyrics ...Show All Other Artists Ben Jelen Lyrics Ben Kenney Lyrics Ben Kweller Lyrics Ben Lummis Lyrics BEN MOODY Lyrics Ben Pollack Lyrics Ben Selvin Lyrics Ben Taylor Lyrics Ben Taylor Band The Lyrics Ben Verleg band Lyrics All lyrics are property and copyright of their owners and are strictly for educational purposes only. lyricstrue.net Copyright © 2005-2007 All Rights Reserved., , Privacy policy