I Shot The Sheriff Chords by The Wailers

[Ab] _ I shot the sheriff, _ but I didn't shoot [Gm] no deputy.
Oh no, no.
_ _ I shot [Ab] the sheriff, _ but I [Gm] didn't shoot no deputy.
_ Woo, woo, woo.
Yeah.
[Eb] _ [D] All around [Gm] in my hometown, _ [Eb] they trying [F] to track [Gm] me down.
_ [Eb] They say they [D] want to bring me [Gm] in guilty _ for the killing [F] of a [Gm] deputy, _
_ [Eb] for the life [F] of a [Gm] deputy. _
But I say, [D] _ [C] _ [Bb] _ [C] _ [G]
oh no, [Ab] no.
_ [G] I shot the sheriff, [Ab] but I swear it [Gm] wasn't subpoena.
No, no.
Woo, woo, woo.
Yeah.
I said, I shot the sheriff.
[Ab] Oh, Lord.
And they [Gm] say, oh, there's a cop in my way.
Woo, woo, woo.
Yeah.
_ [Bb] Sheriff [Gb] John Brown [Bb] always hated me.
For what?
[F] [Eb] I [Gm] don't know.
_ [Eb] Every _ [D] _ _
[Gm] deceit.
He said kill [F] people [Eb]
[Bb] before they grow.
_ _ He said kill [D] them before [Bb] they grow.
And so, [D] _ [C] [D] and [C] [G] so.
_ [Ab] We [Gm] get it, didn't we?
I shot the sheriff.
[Cm] Oh, Lord.
I swear it [Gm] wasn't subpoena.
Where was the deputy?
_ _ I say, I shot the sheriff.
[Cm] _ But I [Gm] swear it wasn't subpoena.
_ Yeah.
Woo, _ [Bb] woo, woo.
Freedom [Gb] came my way [Gm] one day.
_ [Eb] And I started [Dm] out of [Gm] town, yeah. _ _ _
[Gb] But suddenly I [Gm] saw Sheriff John Brown came [F] in to shoot me [Gm] down.
_ So I shot, [Dm] I shot, I [Gm] shot him down.
And I [F] say, _
_ _ [C] _ [G] _ if I am guilty, [D] I will [Bb] pay.
[G] _ _ _ [Ab] _ [Eb] I shot the [Ab] sheriff.
Well, I say.
But I didn't shoot [Gm] the deputy.
I didn't shoot no deputy.
Oh, no, no.
_ [G] I shot the [Cm] sheriff.
But [Gm] I didn't shoot the deputy.
Woo, woo, woo.
Yeah.
Sex [Dm] is at the better [Gm] of me.
_ [Eb] And what is [Dm] to be, per [Gm] se.
_ _ [Eb] Every day, [F] the buckets [Gm] go away.
_ _ One [Gb] day, the bottom [Gm] of it drop out.
_ One day, [Dm] the [Gm] bottom of it drop out.
I say.
[Dm] _ _
[C] _ _ [Bb] [G] I, _ [Ab] _ _ _
[Gm] I shot the [Ab] sheriff.
But I did not shoot the [Gm] deputy.
_ _ _ _ _ Yeah.
I, [Cm] I, I shot the sheriff.
But I didn't [Gm] shoot no deputy.
_ Yeah.
So, yeah.
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