I Shot The Sheriff Chords by The Wailers

[Ab] _ [G] _ [Gm] I shot the [Cm] sheriff, but I [Gm] didn't shoot no deputy.
Oh no, no.
_ I shot the [Cm] sheriff, _ [Gm] but I didn't shoot no deputy.
_ Woo, woo, woo.
[Eb] Yeah.
[D] All around [Gm] in my old town, [Eb] they trying [F] to track [Gm] me down. _
[Eb] They say they [D] want to bring me [Gm] in guilty for the [F] killing of a [Gm] deputy, _
for [Eb] the life of [Dm] a deputy.
[Gm] _ _
But I [Dm] say, [D] _ [Bb] _ [C] _ [G] _ oh no, [Ab] no.
_ [G] I shot the [Ab] sheriff, _ but I [Gm] swear it wasn't some pretty piece.
Woo, woo, woo. Yeah.
I said, I shot the [Ab] sheriff.
Oh, Lord.
And they say, [Gm] oh, there's a deputy in my house.
Woo, woo, woo. _
_ _ [Gb] Sheriff John Brown [Bb] always hated me.
For what?
[Gb] _ [Gm] I don't know.
For [Eb] everything, _ [D] _ [Bb] the seed. _
He said kill [F] [Eb] people before they [Bb] grow. _
He said kill them [D] before they [Gm] grow.
And [F] so, [D] [C] and [C] [Bb] so, [G] _ _
it didn't do.
I shot the sheriff, [Cm] _
but I swear it [Gm] wasn't me.
Where was the deputy? _ _
I said, I shot the [Cm] sheriff, _ but I [Gm] swear it wasn't self-defense.
Yeah.
Woo, _ [Bb] woo, woo.
Freedom [Gb] came my way [Gm] one day. _
And [Eb] I [F] started out [Gm] of town, yeah. _
_ All of [Gb] a sudden, [Gm] I saw Sheriff John Brown came [F] in to shoot [Gm] me down.
So [Eb] I shot, [Dm] I shot, I shot [Gm] him down.
And I [Fm] say, _ _ [C] _ [Bb] _ [G] _
if I am guilty, [D] I will [G] pay.
I [Ab] _
_ [Eb] shot the sheriff, [Ab] _ but I didn't [Gm] shoot the deputy.
I didn't shoot no deputy.
Oh, no, no, no.
I shot the sheriff, [Cm] _ but I [Gm] didn't shoot the deputy.
Oh, woo, woo, woo.
Yeah.
He takes [Dm] his eyes the better [Bb] off me.
_ [Eb] And what [Dm] is the deed [Gm] for me?
Every _ _ _ [Eb]
day, [D] the buckets, [Gm] I go, I well.
_ One day, [Gb] the bottom, I [Gm] got dropped out.
_ [Eb] One [Dm] day, the bottom, [Gm] I got dropped out.
I [G] say, _
[C] _ [Bb] _ [C] _ [G] _ _ _ [Ab] _ _
[Gm] _ I shot [Ab] the sheriff, but I didn't [Gm] shoot the deputy.
_ _ _ _ Yeah.
I, [Cm] I, I shot the sheriff, but I didn't shoot [Gm] no deputy.
_ Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
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