I Shot the Sheriff
Yeah! All around in my home town
They're tryin' to track me down
They say they want to
bring me in guilty
For the killing of a deputy
For the life of a deputy
Oh, now, now. Oh!
Sheriff John Brown always hated me,
For what, I don't know:
Every time I plant a seed,
He said kill it before it grow -
He said kill them before they grow.
Read it in the news:
Freedom came my way one day
And I started out of town
yeah
All of a sudden I saw sheriff
John Brown
Aiming to shoot me down
So I shot I shot I
shot him down and I say
If I am guilty I will pay
But I say
I didn't shoot no deputy
I did!
But I didn't shoot no deputy
Reflexes had got the better of me
And what is to be must be
Every day
the bucket ago a well
One day
the bottom ago drop out
One day
the bottom ago drop out.