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Verse 1
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Miguel came from a small
town in northern Mexico.
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He came north with his brother Louis to
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California three years ago
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They crossed at the river levee,
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when Louis was just sixteen
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And found work together in the
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fields of the San Joaquin
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Verse 2
They left their homes and family
Their father said,
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"My sons one thing you will learn,
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For everything the north gives,
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it exacts a price in return."
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They worked side by side in the orchards
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From morning till the day was through
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hueros wouldn't do.
Verse 3
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Word was out some men in from Sinaloa
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were looking for some hands
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Well, deep in Fresno county there
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was a deserted chicken ranch
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And there in a small tin shack
on the edge of a ravine
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Miguel and Luis stood cooking
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methamphetamine
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Verse 4
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You could spend a year in the orchards
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Or make half as much in
one ten hour shift
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Working for the men from Sinaloa
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But if you slipped the hydriodic acid
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Could burn right through
They'd leave you spittin'
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up blood in the desert
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If you breathed those fumes in
Verse 5
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It was early one winter evening as
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Miguel stood watch outside
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When the shack exploded,
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lighting up the valley night
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Miguel carried Louis' body
over his shoulder down a swale
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To the creekside and there in the tall grass,
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Louis Rosales died
Miguel lifted Louis' body into his
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truck and then he drove
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To where the morning sunlight fell
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There in the dirt he dug up ten-thousand dollars.
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dollars. all that they'd saved
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Kissed his brothers lips
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and placed him in his grave
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