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	D	G	D
	The crops are all in and the pe	aches are ro	tting

	A7	D	D7
The oranges are packed in their c	reosote d	umps

	G	D
You're f	lying them back to the Mex	ican border

	A7	D	D7
To spend all their money, to w	ade back ag	ain

CHORUS:

	G	D
Goodb	ye to my Juan, good-b	ye Rosalita

	A7	D	D7
Adi	os mes amigos, Jes	us y Ma	ria

	G	D
You w	on't have a name when you ri	de the big airplane

	A7	D
And all they will call you will	be depor	tee

Some of us are illegal, and others not wanted

Our work contracts out and we've got to move on

Six hundred miles to that Mexican border

They chase us like outlaws, like rustlers, like thieves...CHORUS

The sky plane caught fire over Los Gatos canyon

A fireball of lightning, that shook all our hills

Who are all these friends who are scattered like dry leaves?

The radio said they were just deportees...CHORUS TWICE

EXTRA VERSES:

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 truck till they took down and died ...CHORUS

We died in your hills, 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...CHORUS

NOTE: I got most of this from the lyrics archives under Woody Guthrie.

It is a Guthrie song, but I figure Byrds fans might like it too. The

Byrds only sang the first three verses, but I thought I'd include all the

ones in Guthrie's version.

(from The Ballad of Easy Rider, 1969)

(sent by Harlan at harlant@hawaii.edu)

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