𝐋𝐄𝐓'𝐒 𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐓 𝐈𝐓 𝐀𝐆𝐀𝐈𝐍: 𝐁𝐎𝐁 𝐃𝐘𝐋𝐀𝐍, 𝐉𝐎𝐀𝐍 𝐁𝐀𝐄𝐙 𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐖𝐎𝐎𝐃𝐘 𝐆𝐔𝐓𝐇𝐑𝐘'𝐒 "𝐃𝐄𝐏𝐎𝐑𝐓𝐄𝐄" 𝐀𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐑𝐎𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐇𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐑 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 𝐈𝐍 𝟏𝟗𝟕𝟔

 

Woody Guthrie wrote "Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)" in 1948,  The song inspired by a newspaper article about a plane crash near Los Gatos Canyon, California, that killed 28 Mexican farmworkers being deported.  News reports at the time only listed the names of the American crew members, not the Mexican passengers, prompting Guthrie to write the song.

Bob Dylan and Joan Baez sang "Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)" together on stage during the Rolling Thunder Revue tour in 1975 and 1976. Specifically, they performed it as a duet during the second leg of the tour in 1976 in Austin, Texas and Fort Collins, Colorado. The performance from the Fort Collins, Colorado show was captured on video and later included in the film "Hard Rain."