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 BOB MARLEY - I Shot The Sheriff Lyrics

[I shot the sheriff
But I didn't shoot no deputy, oh no! Oh!
I shot the sheriff
But I didn't shoot no deputy, ooh, ooh, oo-ooh.]
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Yeah! All around in my home town,
They're tryin' to track me down
They say they want to bring me in guilty
For the killing of a deputy,
For the life of a deputy.
But I say:

Oh, now, now. Oh!
[I shot the sheriff.] - the sheriff.
[But I swear it was in selfdefence.]
Oh, no! [Ooh, ooh, oo-oh] Yeah!
I say: I shot the sheriff - Oh, Lord! -
[And they say it is a capital offence.]
Yeah! [Ooh, ooh, oo-oh] Yeah!

Sheriff John Brown always hated me,
For what, I don't know:
Every time I plant a seed,
He said kill it before it grow -
He said kill them before they grow.
And so:

Read it in the news:
[I shot the sheriff.] Oh, Lord!
[But I swear it was in self-defence.]
Where was the deputy? [Oo-oo-oh]
I say: I shot the sheriff,
But I swear it was in selfdefence. [Oo-oh] Yeah!

Freedom came my way one day
And I started out of town, yeah!
All of a sudden I saw sheriff John Brown
Aiming to shoot me down,
So I shot - I shot - I shot him down and I say:
If I am guilty I will pay.

[I shot the sheriff,]
But I say [But I didn't shoot no deputy],
I didn't shoot no deputy [oh, no-oh], oh no!
[I shot the sheriff.] I did!
But I didn't shoot no deputy. Oh! [Oo-oo-ooh]

Reflexes had got the better of me
And what is to be must be:
Every day the bucket a-go a well,
One day the bottom a-go drop out,
One day the bottom a-go drop out.
I say:

I - I - I - I shot the sheriff.
Lord, I didn't shot the deputy. Yeah!
I - I [shot the sheriff] -
But I didn't shoot no deputy, yeah! No, yeah!