An immigration song: Woody Guthrie's "Deportee" updated for 2013

Now Texas has strawberries, Georgia has peaches
And someone must pick them before they all rot
The immigrants work cheap and make fruit affordable
Newt and O’Reilly say, “No, they must not!”

“Adios,” says Newt Gingrich, “adios,” says O’Reilly
“On your exit papers we’ll stamp a big Smiley
“Your fathers were here first but that doesn’t bother us
“All we will call you will be deportee.”


Now O’Reilly is Irish and Gingrich is German
Their grandfathers might have come scared and alone,
But they don’t want people to come like their ancestors
They’d put their forebears on the next boat home.

“Adios,” says Newt Gingrich, “adios,” says O’Reilly
“On your export papers we’ll stamp a big Smiley
“Your fathers were here first but that doesn’t bother us
“All we will call you will be deportee.”



“We’ll kick out Hispanics, we’ll expel the Haitians
“We’ll kick out the Navajo and Cherokee
“We’ll kick out them foreigner Native Americans
“The only ones left here will be you and me.”

“Adios,” says Newt Gingrich, “adios,” says O’Reilly
“On your exit papers we’ll stamp a big Smiley
“Your fathers were here first but that doesn’t bother us
“All we will call you will be deportee.“