Inner Circle - I Shot the Sheriff Chords

_ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ [Bb] _
_ [Gm] _ _ _ _ I shot the sheriff, _ [Cm] but I didn't kill [Gm] no deputies.
_ I _ _ _ shot the sheriff, _ [Cm] but I didn't kill [Gm] no deputies.
_ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ [Dm]
Around [Gm] my hometown, _ _ [Eb] _ [Dm] they're trying to [Gm] track me down.
_ _ [Eb] _ [Dm] They say they want to bring [Gm] me in guilty.
_ [Eb] _ Killing [Dm] all the [Gm] deputies, _ _ [Eb] for the life of [Dm] the [Gm] deputies.
_ That's what I said, [Dm] _ [A] _
_ [Gm] _ _ but _ _ _
_ _ _ [Cm] I swear it [Gm] wasn't self defense.
_ _ _ _ I shot the sheriff, [Cm] now they tell me it's [Gm] a capital offense.
_ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ [Dm]
Sheriff John Brown [Gm] always hated me.
[Eb] _ [Dm] What I [Gm] don't know, _ _ [Eb] _ [D] every time [Gm] I plan a scene.
_ [Eb] He said [Gm] kill it before it grows.
_ [Eb] He said kill it [Dm] before it grows.
What I said, [D] _ [A] _
_ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _ _
I shot the sheriff, [Cm] but I didn't [Gm] kill no deputies.
I _ _ _ [C] _ _
shot the sheriff, [Cm] but I didn't kill [Gm] no [G] deputies.
_ [Gm] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ [D]
Freedom [Gm] came my way one day, [Eb] _ [D] and I started [Gm] out.
_ _ _ [Eb] _ All of a sudden I [Gm] see the Sheriff John [Eb] Brown, _ [Dm] aiming to shoot [Gm] me down.
_ [Eb] So I shot him, [Dm] I shot him [Gm] down.
So I said, [C] _ [D] _
_ [Gm] _ _ keep on from _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _
[Cm] it, but I swear it wasn't [Gm] self defense. _
_ _ _ I shot the sheriff, _ now they tell me it's a [G] capital offense. _
_ _ [Eb] _ [D] Flex has got [Gm] the better of me, [G] _ [Eb] _ [Dm] honest to me, [Gm] must be.
_ [Eb] _ Every [D] day I'm about to [Gm] go away, _ [Eb] one day the bottom [Gm] will drop out. _
[Eb] Yes, one day the bottom will [Gm] drop out.
So [F] I said, _ _ [Gm] I _ _ _ _ shot the sheriff, _ [Cm]
but I swear it wasn't [Gm] self defense. _ _ _
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