(I shot the sheriff But I didn't shoot no deputy, oh no! 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. (I shot the sheriff.) - the sheriff. (But I swear it was in selfdefence.) Oh, no! 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: Oh, Lord! (But I swear it was in self-defence.)
Where was the deputy? 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 (I shot the sheriff.) I did!
But I didn't shoot no deputy. 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 shot the sheriff. Lord, I didn't shot the deputy. NO!
But I didn't shoot no deputy, yeah! So, yeah! (sing365)
written by Bob Marley, told from the point of view of a man who admits to having killed the local sheriff, but claims to be falsely accused of having killed the deputy sheriff. He also claims to have acted in self defense when the sheriff tried to shoot him. . Marley explained his intention as follows: "I want to say 'I shot the police' but the government would have made a fuss so I said 'I shot the sheriff' instead... but it's the same idea: justice." (wikipedia)
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