Artist:  Arlo Guthrie Based on the version on Arlo Guthrie’s self titled album but simplified to make it suitable for novices like me. YouTube (https://youtu.be/_HCueUbLIAU) Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/track/49i5sYd1CLsGbHHwPdzBSm) [Chords] [Verse 1] The crops are all in the peaches are rotting The oranges are piled in their creosote dumps They’re flying you back to the Mexico border To pay all your money to wade back again My Father’s own father he waded that river They took all the money he made in his life My brothers and sisters come working the fruit trees They rode the truck till they took down and died [Chorus] Goodbye to my Juan good-bye Rosalita Adios mi amigos Jesus and Maria You won’t have a name when you ride the big airplane All they will call you will be deportees [Verse 2] Some of us are illegal and some are not wanted Our work contracts out and we have to move on Six hundred miles to the Mexico border They chase us like outlaws like rustlers like thieves We died in your hills we died in your deserts We died in your valleys and died on your plains We died ’neath your trees and we died in your bushes Both sides of the river we died just the same [Chorus] Goodbye to my Juan good-bye Rosalita Adios mi amigos Jesus and Maria You won’t have a name when you ride the big airplane All they will call you will be deportees [Verse 3] The sky plane caught fire over Los Gatos canyon A fireball of lightning it shook all our hills Who are these friends all scattered like dry leaves? The radio says they are just deportees Is this the best way we can grow our big orchards? Is this the best way we can grow our good fruit? To fall like like dry leaves to rot on my topsoil And to be called no name except deportee. [Chorus] Goodbye to my Juan good-bye Rosalita Adios mi amigos Jesus and Maria You won’t have a name when you ride the big airplane All they will call you will be deportees