Words by Woody Guthrie, Music by Martin Hoffman<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nThe crops are all in and the peaches are rott’ning,
\nThe oranges piled in their creosote dumps;
\nThey’re flying ’em back to the Mexican border
\nTo pay all their money to wade back again<\/p>\n
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye, Rosalita,
\nAdios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria;
\nYou won’t have your names when you ride the big airplane,
\nAll they will call you will be “deportees”<\/p>\n
My father’s own father, he waded that river,
\nThey took all the money he made in his life;
\nMy brothers and sisters come working the fruit trees,
\nAnd they rode the truck till they took down and died.<\/p>\n
Some of us are illegal, and some are not wanted,
\nOur work contract’s out and we have to move on;
\nSix hundred miles to that Mexican border,
\nThey chase us like outlaws, like rustlers, like thieves.<\/p>\n
We died in your hills, we died in your deserts,
\nWe died in your valleys and died on your plains.
\nWe died ‘neath your trees and we died in your bushes,
\nBoth sides of the river, we died just the same.<\/p>\n
The sky plane caught fire over Los Gatos Canyon,
\nA fireball of lightning, and shook all our hills,
\nWho are all these friends, all scattered like dry leaves?
\nThe radio says, “They are just deportees”<\/p>\n
Is this the best way we can grow our big orchards?
\nIs this the best way we can grow our good fruit?
\nTo fall like dry leaves to rot on my topsoil
\nAnd be called by no name except “deportees”?<\/p>\n
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The difference between a Cuban and a Mexican in these United States is that the moment a Cuban sets foot on American soil, he or she receives refugee status; the Mexican who lands on American soil automatically qualifies as a deportee.\u00a0Thus the Cuban gets a green card and can pursue citizenship. The Mexican gets durance […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2443"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2454,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443\/revisions\/2454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}