DEPORTEE (PLANE WRECK AT LOS GATOS)
As recorded by Margo Price feat. Joan Baez & Memphis Mariachi
(2026 release)
Capo 4th fret
Intro
[G] [D7] [G]
Verse 1
[G] [C] [G]
The crops are all in and the peaches are rotting
[D7] [G] [G7]
The oranges are in the creosote dumps
[C] [G] [Em]
They're flying 'em back to that Mexican border
[G] [D7] [G] [G7]
To take all their money and wade back again
Chorus
[C] [G]
Goodbye, my Juan, farewell, Rosalita
[D7] [G]
Adios, mis amigos, Jesús y Maria
[C] [G] [Em]
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane
[G] [D7] [G]
All they will call you will be deportees
Verse 2
[G] [C] [G]
My father's own father, he waded that river
[D7] [G] [G7]
They took all the money he made in his life
[C] [G] [Em]
It's six hundred miles to that Mexican border
[G] [D7] [G] [G7]
They chase us like rustlers, like outlaws, like thieves
Chorus
[C] [G]
Goodbye, my Juan, farewell, Rosalita
[D7] [G]
Adios, mis amigos, Jesús y Maria
[C] [G] [Em]
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane
[G] [D7] [G]
All they will call you will be deportees
Interlude
[G7] [C] [G] [D7] [G]
[C] [G] [D7] [G]
Verse 3
[G] [C] [G]
The sky-plane caught fire at Los Gatos Canyon
[D7] [G] [G7]
A fireball of lightning, it shook all our hills
[C] [G] [Em]
Who are these comrades who are scattered like dry leaves?
[G] [D] [G] [G7]
Radio tells us they're just deportees
Chorus
[C] [G]
Goodbye, my Juan, farewell, Rosalita
[D7] [G]
Adios, mis amigos, Jesús y Maria
[C] [G] [Em]
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane
[G] [D7] [G]
All they will call you will be deportees
Outro
[G] [D] [G]
All they will call you will be deportees
