The crops are all in and the peaches are gathered
The oranges packed in their creosote bins
They're flying them back to the Mexican border
Will take all their money to get back again
CHORUS:
Goodbye to my friends, good bye Rosalita
Adios mi amigos, Jesus y Maria
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane
All they will call you will be.....Deportee
My father's own father he waded that river
Others before him have done just the same
They died in the hills and they died in the valleys
Some went to heaven with out any names
CHORUS:
Goodbye to my friends, good bye Rosalita
Adios mi amigos, Jesus y 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 contracts finished we have to move on
Its six hundred miles to the Mexican border
They chase us like outlaws, like rustlers, like thieves
CHORUS:
Goodbye to my friends, good bye Rosalita
Adios mi amigos, Jesus y Maria
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane
All they will call you will be.....Deportee
(Instrumental)
The sky plane caught fire over Los Gatos canyon
А fireball of thunder that shook the hills round
Who are those friends who are scattered like dry leaves
The radio said they were just...Deportees
CHORUS:
Goodbye to my friends, good bye Rosalita
Adios mi amigos, Jesus y Maria
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane
All they will call you will be.....Deportee