I Shot The Sheriff

Chorus:
Gm
 I shot the sheriff,
Cm                     Gm
 But I didn't shoot no deputy, oh no! Oh!
Gm
 I shot the sheriff,
Cm                     Gm
 But I didn't shoot no deputy. Ooh, ooh, oo-ooh.
 
Verse:
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 All a-round in my home town,
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They're tryin' to track me down;
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 They say they want to bring me in guilty,
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For the killing of a depu-ty,
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For the life of a dep-uty. But I say...
 
Riff:
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Chorus:
Gm
 I shot the sheriff,
Cm                     Gm
 But I swear it was in self-defence. - Oh, no! Yeah! -
       Gm                     Cm
I say; I shot the sheriff, oh Lord!
                     Gm
And they say it is a capital offence. Yeah!
 
Verse:
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 Sheriff John Brown always hated me,
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For what... I don't know.
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Every time I plant a seed,
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He said kill it be-fore it grow,
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He said kill them be-fore they grow. And so, and so...
 
Riff:
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- Read it in the news! -
 
Chorus:
Gm
 I shot the sheriff,
Cm                     Gm
 But I swear it was in self-defence. I say;
Gm
 I shot the sheriff,
Cm                     Gm
 But I swear it was in self-defence. - Yeah! -
 
Verse:
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 Freedom came my way one day,
      D#      Dm7     Gm
And I started, out of town, yeah!
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 All of a sudden I saw Sheriff John Brown,
D#         Dm7      Gm
 Aiming to shoot me down,
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So I shot, I shot, I shot him down. And I say...
 
Riff:
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- If I am guilty, I will pay -...
 
Chorus:
Gm
 I shot the sheriff,
Cm                     Gm
 But I didn't shoot no deputy, oh no! Oh!
Gm
 I shot the sheriff,
Cm                     Gm
 But I didn't shoot no deputy. Ooh, ooh, oo-ooh.
 
Verse:
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Re-flexes had the better of me,
    D#         Dm7     Gm
And what is to be must be.
      D#       Dm7           Gm
Every day, the bucket a-go a-well,
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 One day the bottom a-go drop out,
D#           Dm7         Gm
 One day the bottom a-go drop out.
 
Riff:
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- I say -...
 
Chorus:
    Gm
I-I-I, I shot the sheriff,
Cm                            Gm
 Lord, I didn't shot the depu-ty. No!
  Gm
I-I...- shot the sheriff -,
Cm                     Gm
 But I didn't shoot no deputy. Yeah! So, yeah!
 
Outro - repeat and fade -: Gm  Cm, Gm