I Shot The Sheriff

[Chorus 1]
[Gm]  
I shot the sheriff  
[Cm]                    [Gm]  
But I didn't shoot no deputy, oh no! Oh!  
[Gm]  
I shot the sheriff  
[Cm]                    [Gm]  
But I didn't shoot no deputy. Ooh, ooh, oo-ooh  

[Verse 1]  
[D#]     [Dm7]      [Gm]  
All a-round in my home town  
        [D#]        [Dm7]      [Gm]  
They're tryin' to track me down  
[D#]             [Dm7]                 [Gm]  
They say they want to bring me in guilty  
        [D#]           [Dm7]  [Gm]  
For the killing of a deputy  
        [D#]        [Dm7] [Gm]  
For the life of a deputy, but I say...  

[Riff]  
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B|-------------------------|  
G|-------------------------|  
D|--5-3--------------------|  
A|-------5-3-----5-3-------|  
E|------------6-------6-3--|  

[Chorus 2]  
[Gm]  
I shot the sheriff  
[Cm]                    [Gm]  
But I swear it was in self-defence (Oh, no! Yeah!)  
[Gm]  
I shot the sheriff, oh Lord!  
[Cm]                    [Gm]  
And they say it is a capital offence, yeah!  

[Verse 2]  
[D#]       [Dm7]               [Gm]  
Sheriff John Brown always hated me  
    [D#]     [Dm7]      [Gm]  
For what... I don't know  
      [D#]     [Dm7]     [Gm]  
Every time I plant a seed  
        [D#]         [Dm7]     [Gm]  
He said kill it before it grow  
        [D#]           [Dm7]       [Gm]  
He said kill them before they grow, and so, and so...  

[Riff]  

[Chorus 3]  
[Gm]  
I shot the sheriff  
[Cm]                    [Gm]  
But I swear it was in self-defence  
[Gm]  
I shot the sheriff  
[Cm]                    [Gm]  
But I swear it was in self-defence (Yeah!)  

[Verse 3]  
[D#]               [Dm7]     [Gm]  
Freedom came my way one day  
      [D#]      [Dm7]     [Gm]  
And I started out of town, yeah!  
[D#]        [Dm7]          [Gm]  
All of a sudden I saw Sheriff John Brown  
[D#]         [Dm7]      [Gm]  
Aiming to shoot me down  
     [D#]      [Dm7]              [Gm]  
So I shot, I shot, I shot him down, and I say...  

[Riff]  

[Chorus 4]  
[Gm]  
I shot the sheriff  
[Cm]                    [Gm]  
But I didn't shoot no deputy, oh no! Oh!  
[Gm]  
I shot the sheriff  
[Cm]                    [Gm]  
But I didn't shoot no deputy. Ooh, ooh, oo-ooh  

[Verse 4]  
   [D#]             [Dm7]       [Gm]  
Reflexes had the better of me  
    [D#]         [Dm7]     [Gm]  
And what is to be must be  
      [D#]       [Dm7]           [Gm]  
Every day, the bucket a-go a-well  
[D#]           [Dm7]         [Gm]  
One day the bottom a-go drop out  
[D#]           [Dm7]         [Gm]  
One day the bottom a-go drop out  

[Riff]  

[Chorus 5]  
[Gm]  
I-I-I, I shot the sheriff  
[Cm]                          [Gm]  
Lord, I didn't shoot the deputy, no!  
[Gm]  
I-I...(shot the sheriff)  
[Cm]                    [Gm]  
But I didn't shoot no deputy, yeah! So yeah!