Princess Derpina

Joan Baez & Bob Dylan, “Plane Wreck at Los Gatos (Deportee)” Fort Worth, TX, May 16, 1976.

“We’ve died in your hills and we’ve died in your deserts. We’ve died in your valleys, we’ve died on your plains. We’ve died ‘neath your trees and we’ve died in your bushes, Both sides of the river we’ve died just the same…

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Some of us are illegal, and others not wanted Our work contract’s out and we have to move on But it’s six hundred miles to that Mexican border They chase us like outlaws, like rustlers, like thieves.

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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 dry leaves and rot on the top soil and be called by no name except “deportee”

Jonathan Harker (before he goes to Dracula's castle)