I Shot The Sheriff

I Shot The Sheriff - 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 ooh yeah

All around in my hometown

They're tryin' to track me down yeah

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

Ooh ooh ooh

I 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 And so

Read it in the news

I shot the sheriff

But I swear it was in self defense

Where was the deputy

Ooh ooh ooh

I said I shot the sheriff

But I swear it was in self defense

Yeah ooh

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

Ooh no oh

I shot the sheriff

But I didn't shoot no deputy

Ooo ooo ooh yeah

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

I say I I I I shot the sheriff

But I didn't shoot the deputy no

Yeah

I I shot the sheriff

But I didn't shoot the deputy

Yeah so yeah