Deportee - guitar chords and comments
Lyrics without distraction HERE
In December 1930, a planeload of deportees back to Mexico caught fire and crashed in the canyon of Los Gatos, California. The victims of the accident were spread across a large area, no attempt at identification were made, their next of kins were not noticed and their bodies were shuffeled into a common grave.A furious Woody Guthrie wrote the inserat "Plane Wreck at Los Gatos" in the New York Times. Years later, a schoolteacher named Martin Hoffman came up with the melody for a performance in New York, called the song "Deportee" and it's told that Guthrie ... then crippeled from MS disease ... were present at the theater premiere, recognized the words, and whispered them along with the performance.
The song was then spread to the public, mostly thanks to recordings by the Weavers, Pete Seeger and then Joan Baez. An outrageous issue is that extortion of illegal immigrants *right in this area* still is common, now writing 2024.
A Bm7 A the crops are all in and the peaches are rotten A Bm7 A the oranges are piled in their creosote dumps D A they're flyin' them back to the Mexican border A Bm7 A to pay all their money to wade back again D A A7 goodbye to my Juan goodbye Rosalita E E7 A A7 Adios mi amigo Jesus y Maria D A you won't have your names when you ride the big airplane A Bm7 A all they will call you will be deportee
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