I Shot The Sheriff Chords by The Wailers

_ [G] I shot the [Ab] sheriff, _ but I didn't shoot no [Gm] deputy.
_ Oh no, oh.
_ I shot the [Ab] sheriff, but I [Gm] didn't shoot no deputy.
_ Woo, woo, woo.
Yeah.
[Eb] _ [D] All around in [Gm] my hometown, _ [Eb] they trying [Dm] to track [Gm] me down.
Yeah.
They [Eb] say they [D] want to bring me [Gm] in guilty _ [Eb] for the killing
[Dm] of a [Gm] deputy, _ _ [Eb] for the life [Dm] of a [Gm] deputy.
_ Well, I [F] say, [D] _ [Bb] _ [C] _ [Bb] _ [G] oh no, [Ab] no.
_ I shot the sheriff, the sheriff,
but I swear it [Gm] wasn't subpoena.
No, no.
Woo, woo, woo.
Yeah.
I said, I shot the [Ab] sheriff.
Oh, Lord.
And they say [Gm] there's a copy of this.
Woo, woo, woo. _ _
_ [F] Sheriff John [Ebm] Brown [Bb] always hated me.
For what?
[F] _ [Eb] [Gm] I don't know. _
[Eb] Every _ [D] time [Bb] I see him, _ he said kill these [F] [Ebm] people, [Bb] these rogues.
He said kill them [Gb] before [Gm] they grow.
_ And so, [D] [C] and [C] _ [Bb] [G] so, _ [Abm]
[Gm] he didn't do it.
I shot the sheriff, [Cm] _ but I swear it [Gm] wasn't subpoena.
Where was the deputy? _ _
I say, I shot the sheriff, [Cm] _ but I swear [Gm] it wasn't self-defense.
Yeah.
Woo, woo, woo.
Freedom [Gb] came my way [Gm] one day, _ [Eb] and I started [D] out of [Gm] town. _ _ _
All of [F] a sudden, I [Gm] saw Sheriff John Brown [F] came in to shoot me [Gm] down.
[Eb] So I shot, [Dm] I shot, I shot [Gm] him down.
And I [Dm] say, [C] _ [D] _ [C] _ [G] _ if I am guilty, [Ab] I will pay.
[G] I say, I [Ab] _
shot the sheriff, but I didn't shoot [Gm] the deputy.
I didn't shoot [G] no deputy.
Oh, no, no.
_ I shot the [Cm] sheriff, _ [Gm] but I didn't shoot the deputy.
Oh, woo, woo, woo.
Yeah.
_ Reflexes [Dm] are the better [Bb] of me.
_ _ And what is to [Dm] be must [Gm] be.
_ Every [Eb] [D] day, the [Gm] buckets go away.
_ One [Gb] day, the bottom [Gm] of the dropout.
_ [Eb] One [Dm] day, the bottom [Gm] of the dropout.
I say, _ [D] _ [Bb] _
[C] _ [G] _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ [Gm] _
I shot [Ab] the sheriff, but I didn't shoot the [Gm] deputy. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ I [Cm] say, I shot the sheriff, but I didn't [Gm] shoot no deputy. _
Yeah.
Oh, yeah. _ _
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