Deportee chords by The Highwaymen

Deportee - Highwaymen
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Tabbed by: Dave S.
Email: prime-prine@hotmail.com

Tuning: Standard (CAPO 5th Fret)

Artist: The Highwaymen
Album: Highwayman
Year: 1985

Intro:
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The crops are all in and the peaches are rotting
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The oranges are packed in the creoste dumps
    G
They're flying them back to the Mexican border
              G
To save all their money and wade back again


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My father's own father he waded that river
            G
Others before him have done just the same
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They died in the hills and they died in the valleys
             G
Some went to heaven with out any names



Chorus:

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Goodbye to my Juan, good bye Rosalita
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Adios mi amigos, Jesus y Maria
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You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane
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All they will call you will be Deportee



(Repeat Intro)


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Some of us are illegal and others not wanted
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Our work contracts out and we have to move on
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Six hundred miles to the Mexican border
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They chase us like outlaws like rustlers, like thieves



(Repeat Chorus 2x)


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The sky plane caught fire over Los Gatos canyon
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A fireball of thunder that shook all the hills
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Who are all these dear friends scattered like dry leaves
             G
The radio said they were just Deportees