I Shot The Sheriff Lyrics

The song I Shot The Sheriff is performed by Bob Marley in the album named Gold in the year 2005 .



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! No, yeah!




Bob Marley - Gold

Jan 2005

  1. Stir It Up
  2. Slave Driver
  3. Concrete Jungle
  4. Get Up, Stand Up
  5. I Shot The Sheriff
  6. Burnin' And Lootin'
  7. Lively Up Yourself
  8. Rebel Music (Three O'Clock Roadblock)
  9. Trenchtown Rock
  10. No Woman, No Cry
  11. Jah Live
  12. Positive Vibration
  13. Roots, Rock, Reggae
  14. Crazy Baldhead
  15. Natural Mystic
  16. Exodus
  17. Jammin'
  18. One Love / People Get Ready
  19. Waiting In Vain
  20. Punky Reggae Party
  21. Is This Love
  22. Sun Is Shining
  23. Satisfy My Soul
  24. Kinky Reggae
  25. Medley: War / No More Trouble
  26. So Much Trouble In The World
  27. Africa Unite
  28. One Drop
  29. Could You Be Loved
  30. Coming In From The Cold
  31. Redemption Song
  32. Buffalo Soldier
  33. Rastaman Live Up
  34. Iron Lion Zion


I Shot The Sheriff