Words by Woody Guthrie, Music by Martin Hoffman<\/p>\n
The crops are all in and the peaches are rott\u2019ning,
\nThe oranges piled in their creosote dumps;
\nThey\u2019re flying \u2018em back to the Mexican border
\nTo pay all their money to wade back again<\/p>\n
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye, Rosalita, My father\u2019s own father, he waded that river, Some of us are illegal, and some are not wanted, We died in your hills, we died in your deserts, The sky plane caught fire over Los Gatos Canyon, Is this the best way we can grow our big orchards? Words by Woody Guthrie, Music by Martin Hoffman The crops are all in and the peaches are rott\u2019ning, The oranges piled in their creosote dumps; They\u2019re flying \u2018em back to the Mexican border To pay all their money to wade back again Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye, Rosalita, Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria; You…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8976,1863,1864,8792],"tags":[8801],"class_list":["post-16028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-migrant-struggles","category-cultural-celebration","category-our-history","category-issue-24","tag-author-woody-guthrie"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"views":2540,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16028"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16030,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16028\/revisions\/16030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAdios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria;
\nYou won\u2019t have your names when you ride the big airplane,
\nAll they will call you will be deportees<\/q><\/p>\n
\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
\nOur work contract\u2019s 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
\nWe died in your valleys and died on your plains.
\nWe died \u2018neath your trees and we died in your bushes,
\nBoth sides of the river, we died just the same.<\/p>\n
\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<\/q><\/p>\n
\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<\/q>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"