09. I Shot The Sheriff - (Bob Marley) - [Legend] Chords

_ _ _ [Gm] I shot the [Cm] sheriff, but [Ab] I didn't shoot the [G] deputy.
[F] Oh, no, [G] oh.
_ I shot the sheriff, [Cm] _
but I didn't [Bb] shoot the deputy.
[G] _ Ooh, ooh, ooh.
[Eb] Yeah.
[D] All around [Gm] in my old town, [Eb] they're trying [Dm] to track [Gm] me down.
Yeah.
[Eb] They say they [Dm] want to bring me [Gm] in guilty for the [Dm] killing of a deputy,
[Gm] _
_ [Eb] for the life of [Dm] a deputy.
[Gm] _
_ But I say, [Bb] ooh, ooh, ooh.
[G] _
_ _ [E] Ooh.
[Eb] I shot the sheriff, [Ab] but I still ain't got the [Gm] softest nose.
Oh, no.
Ooh, ooh, ooh.
Yeah.
I said, I shot the [Cm] sheriff.
Oh, Lord.
And they say [Gm] you never kept me in my little den.
Oh, well.
_ [Eb] Yeah.
[D] Sheriff John [Dm] Brown always hated me.
For what?
_ I don't know.
_ [Eb] Every time [D] I heard [Gm] the scene, _ [Eb] he said, kill it [Dm] before it grow.
_ _ [Eb] He said, kill them [Dm] before [Gm] they grow.
And so, _ [C] and [G] so, _ he said, [Gm] I shot the sheriff.
_ [Cm] Oh, Lord.
Lord, don't say I didn't shoot the deputy.
Well, what's the deputy?
Oh, no.
I said, I shot the sheriff.
[Cm] _ But I swear it was in [Gm] self-defense.
Yeah.
_ _ _ [Eb] _ [D] Freedom came my way [Gm] one day.
[Eb] And I [Dm] started out [Gm] of town, yeah.
_ _ [Eb] All [Dm] of a sudden, I saw Sheriff John Brown
came in to shoot [D] me down.
_ [Eb] So I shot, [Dm] I shot, I [Gm] shot him down.
I said, [C] if _ _
[G] _ I am guilty, [D] I will [G] pay.
_ _ [E] I shot the [Cm] sheriff.
But I said, I didn't [Bb] shoot the deputy.
[Gm] I didn't shoot the deputy.
_ I shot the [Cm] sheriff. _
But I didn't shoot [Gm] the deputy.
Oh, _ [Eb]
yeah.
_ Reflexes are the [Gm] better of me.
_ And [Dm] what is to me, [Gm] hurts me. _
_ Every [Dm] day, the [Gm] bumping, I go, oh, well.
_ One [D] day, the bottom [Gm] of a dropout. _
_ [Eb] One [Am] day, the bottom [Gm] of a dropout.
I said, _ _ _ [Bb] _ [G] _ _
_ [Ab] I, I, [Gm] I, I shot the sheriff.
But all I did was shot the [Dm] deputy.
_ _ _ _ [Gm] _
Yeah, I, [Cm] I, I, I shot the sheriff.
But I didn't shoot [Gm] no deputy.
_ Yeah. _
Oh, yeah.
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_ _ _ Yeah.
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