I Shot the Sheriff - Bob Marley

Lyrics by：Robert Nesta Marley

Composed by：Robert Nesta Marley

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 ooh yeah

All around in my hometown

They're tryin' to track me down yeah

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 self defense"

Ooh ooh ooh

I said "I shot the sheriff

Oh Lord

And they say it is a capital offense

Yeah

Ooh ooh ooh yeah

Hear this

Sheriff John Brown always hated me

For what I don't know

Every time I plant a seed

He say "Kill it before it grow"

He say "Kill them before they grow"

And so and so

Read it in the news

I shot the sheriff but I swear it was in self defense

Where was the deputy

Ooh ooh ooh

I say "I shot the sheriff

But I swear it was in self defense"

Yeah ooh-ooh

Freedom came my way one day

And I started out of town yeah

All of the sudden I saw Sheriff John Brown

Aimin' 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

I shot the sheriff

I did

But I didn't shoot no deputy

Ooh ooh ooh

Yeah

Reflexes had 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 no"

Yeah I I shot the sheriff

But I didn't shoot no deputy

Yeah so yeah