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 ooh

All around in my home town

They're trying 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 but I swear it was in self defense

Oh no oh yeah I say

I shot the sheriff and they say it is a capital offense

Oh oh oh

Sheriff john brown always hated me

For what I don't know

Every time that I plant a seed

He said kill it before it grows

He said kill it before it grows and so and so

Read it in the news

I shot the sheriff but I swear it was in self defense

Where was the deputy

I say I shot the sheriff but I swear it was in self defense

Freedom came my way one day

I started out of town yeah

All of a sudden I sew 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

Oh no oh

I shot the sheriff but I didn't shoot no deputy

Oh 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 yeah so yeah