Bob Marley PLAYLIST
 


  (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. NO!
 I - I (shot the sheriff) -
 But I didn't shoot no deputy, yeah! So, yeah!