Bob Marley Lyrics

Album: BURNIN'

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!