This song was written by Woody Guthrie in 1948, after he heard on the radio that deportees
were killed in a plane crash near Los Gatos Canyon.

The passengers were migrant farm workers being deported back to Mexico.
Woody was so furious with the broadcast, he jotted down these words on a napkin:

"You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane. All they will call you will be Deportees."

Woody dedicated this song to farm workers of the world hoping they would soon cease to be victims.
Woody Guthrie wrote the lyrics and Martin Hoffman composed the music."

- JOAN BAEZ






*** Bonus Track ***

THE KINGSTON TRIO sing "Deportee" on their superb 1964 album "Time To Think" :