Thank You Deportee (The Reverse Deportee Song)

Lyrics by: Grannie Annie
Gaggle: Mendocino
Tune: Deportee by Woody Guthrie
Date Written or Updated: 03/10/26

The crops are all in and the food is so healthy

The vegetables piled high in orange and green

We eat in abundance as tho we were wealthy

Because of the farmworkers here on the scene

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   Thank you to Juan, Thank you Rosalita,

   Thank you amigos Jesús and Anita

   We’re happy you live, bienvenidos

   And all we can say is gracias a ti

But now in the shadows some armed men are lurking

Waiting to grab folks and take them away

But we are all watching and care for each other

Those men are not getting our neighbors today

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