I Shot The Sheriff

I Shot The Sheriff - Bob Marley (鮑勃·馬利)/The Wailers (威勒斯)

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

All around in my hometown

They're tryin' to track me down yeah

They say they want to bring me in guilty

For the life of a deputy

For the life of a deputy

But I say

Oh I shot the sheriff

But I swear it was in self defense

Ooh ooh ooh

It was said I shot the sheriff Oh Lord

And they say it is a capital offense

Ooh ooh ooh

Hear this

Sheriff John Brown always hated me

For what I don't know

Ev'ry time I plant a seed

He said "Kill it before it grows "

He said "Kill them before they grow "

And so

I shot the sheriff

But I swear it was in self defense

Ooh ooh ooh

Where was the deputy

I said I shot the sheriff

But I didn't shoot no deputy

You say Freedom came my way one day

And I started out of town yeah

All of a sudden I saw Sheriff John Brown

He was Aiming to shoot me down

So I shot yes I shot I shot him down

And I say

I shot the sheriff

But I didn't shoot no deputy

Ooh no oh

I shot the sheriff

But I didn't shoot no deputy

Ooo ooo ooh

Reflexes had the better of me

And what is to be must be

Ev'ry day the bucket a-go-a well

One day the bottom a-go drop out

One day the bottom a-go drop out

And so oh now now

Read it in the news

I shot the sheriff

But I didn't shoot the deputy no

And I say if I am guilty I will pay