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.)
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