Chords for Bob Marley & The Wailers - I Shot The Sheriff

[N] _ [Gm] I shot the [Cm] sheriff, but I didn't shoot no [Gm] deputy.
Oh no, oh no.
I shot the sheriff, [Cm] _ but I didn't [G] shoot no deputy.
_ Woo, [Gm] woo, woo.
[Eb] Yeah.
All around [Gm] in my old town, [Eb] they trying to [Gm] track me down.
Yeah.
They _ say they want to bring me in Gillsby [Eb] for the killing of a [Gm] deputy, _ _ [Eb] for the life
of a [Gm] deputy. _ _
But I say, _ [C] _ _ _ [G] oh no, no.
_ [Gm] I shot the [Cm] sheriff, but I [Gm] swear it wasn't subpoena.
No, no.
Woo, woo, woo.
Yeah.
I said, I shot the [Cm] sheriff, oh Lord. _
[Bb] Oh no.
_ [Gm] _ Woo, woo, woo. _
_ [Eb] _ Sheriff John Brown [Gm] always hated me.
For what?
_ I don't know. _
Every day plant a seed. _
He said kill before it grows. _
[Eb] He said [D] kill them before they [Gm] grow.
And so, [C] and so, [G] _ _
[Ab] they did [Gm] it in the news.
I shot the sheriff, [Cm] _
but I didn't shoot [Gm] no deputy.
Where was the deputy? _ _
I said, I shot the [Cm] sheriff, _ but I [Gm] swear it wasn't self-defense.
Yeah. _ _
_ [Eb] Freedom [Dm] came my way one [Gm] day, _ [Eb] and I [Dm] started out of [Gm] town, yeah. _
_ All [Dm] of a sudden, I saw [Gm] Sheriff John Brown came [Dm] in to shoot me [Gm] down. _
So I [F] shot, I shot, I [Gm] shot him down.
And I said, _ [C] _ _ _ [G] _
if I am guilty, I will pay. _ _ _
[Gm] I shot the sheriff, [Cm] but I said, [Gm] I didn't shoot no deputy.
I didn't shoot no deputy. Oh no. _ _
I shot the [Cm] sheriff, [G] but I [Bb] didn't shoot no [Gm] deputy.
Woo, woo, woo.
Yeah.
[Eb]
Sex is at the [Gm] better of me.
_ _ [Eb]
And what [Dm] is to be, [Gm] must be.
_ [Eb] Every day [Dm] the buckets have gone [Gm] away. _ _
[D] One day the [Gm] bottom of a drop out.
_ One [F] day the [Gm] bottom of a drop out.
I said, _
_ [C] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ I [Cm] shot the sheriff,
but I didn't shoot no [Gm] deputy.
_ _ _ _ _ Yeah.
I, I, _ [Cm] but I didn't shoot no deputy. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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