I shot the Sheriff Bob Marley (1973)

REFRNG
|Gm
I shot the sheriff

|Cm

But I didn't shoot no deputy, (But I swear it was in self-defence),

|Gm

oh no!

Oh!

|Gm

I shot the sheriff

|Cm

But I didn't shoot no deputy, (And they say it is a capital offence)

|Gm

ooh, ooh,

oo-ooh

VERSER
|Ebmaj
All around in my home town, Sheriff John Brown always hated me, Freedom came my way one day

Dm7

|Gm

They're tryin' to track me down For what, I don't know And I started out of town, yeah!

|Ebmaj

Dm7

|Gm7

They

|Ebmaj

say they want to bring me in guilty for the killing of a de pu - ty, Every time I plant a seed, He said kill it before it grow All of a sudden I saw sheriff John Brown Aiming to shoot me down,

Dm7

|Gm

|Ebmaj

Dm7

|Gm7

For the He said So I

|Ebmaj

life of a de pu - ty. kill them before they grow shot - I shot - I shot him down

Dm7

|Gm

But I say: And so and I say:

|RIFF

(halv takt = 2 slag)

2.Read it in the news 3.If I am guilty I will pay!