Bob Marley - I Shot The Sheriff

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I shot the sheriff,
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but I didn't shoot the deputy.
Gm
I shot the sheriff,
Cm                      Gm
but I didn't shoot the deputy.
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All a spherical in my home city
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they´re making an attempt to trace me down.
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They say they require to bring me in guilty
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for the killing of a deputy,
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for the killing of a deputy.
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But I say:

I shot the sheriff,
but I swear it had been in selfdefence.
I shot the sheriff,
but I swear it had been in selfdefence.
Sheriff John Brown invariably hated me
for what I don´t recognize.
Ev´ry time that I plant a seed
he said "Kill it before it grow,"
he said "Kill it before it grow."
But I say:

I shot the sheriff,
but I swear it had been in selfdefence.
I shot the sheriff,
but I swear it had been in selfdefence.
Freedom came my means at some point
and I come into being of city.
All of a sudden I see sheriff John Brown,
aiming to shoot me down.
So I shot, I shot him down.
But I say:

I shot the sheriff,
but I didn't shoot the deputy.
I shot the sheriff,
but I didn't shoot the deputy.
Reflexes got the higher of me
and what's to be should be.
Ev´ry day the bucket goes to the well,
but at some point very cheap can drop out,
yes at some point very cheap can drop out.
But I say:420