I Shot The Sheriff

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 self defense

Oh no

Oh oh oh

Yeah

And they say it is a capital offense

Yeah

Oh oh 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 defense

Where was the deputy

Oh

I say I shot the sheriff

But I swear it was in self defense

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 shot the sheriff

I did

But I didn't shoot no deputy Oh

Oh

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