Deportees - wolfe tones

Deportees wolfe tones {1967} fontana vinyl.

Lyrics by Woody Guthrie
Music by Martin Hoffman


The crops are all in and the peaches are gathered
The oranges are piled in their cresote bins
They're flying you back to the Mexico border
It will take al their money to get back again


CHORUS
Farewell to my friends, good-bye Rosalita
Adios mes amigos, Jesus y Maris
You won't have a name when you fly the big air-plane
all they will call you will be deportees.

The sky plane caught fire over Los Gatos canyon
Like a fireball let up ,shook the hills round
Oh Who are all these friends, who are scattered like dry leaves?
The radio says they are just deportees.

CHORUS
Farewell to my friends, good-bye Rosalita
Adios mes amigos, Jesus y Maris
You won't have a name when you fly the big air-plane
all they will call you will be deportees.

Some of us are illegal, and some were not wanted
Our work contracts finished weve got to move on
It's six hundred miles to the Mexican border
They chase us like rustlers, like outlws, like theives.

CHORUS
Farewell to my friends, good-bye Rosalita
Adios mes amigos, Jesus y Maris
You won't have a name when you fly the big air-plane
all they will call you will be deportees.

Is this the best way, for to plough our good orchards?
Is this the best way, for to grow our good fruit?
To lie on the ground, and to root neath the top soil
And never know no name except deportees?

CHORUS
Farewell to my friends, good-bye Rosalita
Adios mes amigos, Jesus y Maris
You won't have a name when you fly the big air-plane
all they will call you will be deportees.

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[catalpa]

The Wolfe Tones at their best, what's sadly lacking now in the band is ''A Lead Man''. Just listen to that mandolin taking the lead to back Tommy's voice. Excellent.

The 'tones should have gotten a replacement after Derek left. They just don't sound as well anymore, but they are still the best rebel group in the world.

[machree01]

I always loved the Mandolin, i play it every so often, the mandolin is missed from Wolfe Tones, and should be added, thanks for the comment Dardo.

[wrexhamtravellers]

Diolch, very sad

[lorgain2]

An anthem for the exploited, great song, thanks Machree.

[draoi1]

This was ignored then and may well be now. Great job by the wolfe tones. Injustice is not bound by time only by indifference. Thanks for posting. rex