I SHOT THE SHERIFF / BOB MARLEY / NIVEL 3

                      

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!

(repeat)

(I shot the sheriff.) - the sheriff

(But I swear it was in self-defence)

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 grows

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 self-defence

(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… shot the sheriff, Lord

I didn't shot the deputy, Yeah!

I… (shot the sheriff)

But I didn't shoot no deputy, yeah!

No, yeah!...