I Shot The Sheriff lyrics
Song information
Artist: Bob Marley
Album: Legend-Best Of
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.)
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! so, yeah!
[from http://lyrics.doheth.co.uk]
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