Chords for Eric Clapton - I Shot The Sheriff - Bass Cover

_ [Gm] I shot the sheriff, _ [Eb] but I didn't shoot [Gm] the dead. _ _ _ _ _
_ I shot the sheriff, [Cm] but I didn't [Gm] shoot the dead.
_ _ _ All _ _ [Eb] _ _ [Dm] around my [Gm] hometown, _ they're trying [F] to track me [Gm] down. _
_ [Bb] They say they want [F] to bring me in [Gm] guilty
for [Eb] the [Dm] killing of a dead man's [Gm] wife. _
For the [Dm] life of a [Gm] deputy.
But I [F] say,
[D] _ [C] _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ [Gm] I shot the sheriff, _
[Cm] but I swear it was [Gm] in self defense. _
_ _ _ I shot the sheriff,
[Cm] _ [Eb] they say it is [Gm] a capital offense. _
_ _ _ _ _ [F] Sheriff John [Gm] Brown always painted me
for [F] what I [Gm] don't know.
_ _ Every [Dm] time [Gm] that I planned a [Bb] scene,
he said, kill [Dm] it before [Gm] it goes.
_ He said, kill [F] it before [G] it goes.
I say,
[F] [C] I _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ shot [Gm] the sheriff,
[Cm] _ [Gm] but I swear it was in self defense.
_ I _ _ _ _ [F]
[Gm] shot the sheriff,
[Cm] _ but I swear it [G] was in self defense.
[Gm] _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _
[Dm] Freedom came [Gm] my way one day,
_ and [Dm] I started out [Gm] unfair. _ _ _
[Dm] All of a sudden [Gm] I see Sheriff John Brown _ _
[Dm] aiming to [Gm] shoot me down.
_ So I shot, [Dm] _ [F] [G] I shot him down.
I [Dm] say,
_ [C] _ _ [Bb] _ [G] _ _ [Gm] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ I shot the sheriff,
_ [Cm] but I did not [Gm] shoot the deputy.
_ I _ _ _ shot the sheriff,
_ [Eb] but I didn't [Gm] shoot the deputy.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[F] Reflexes got [Gm] the better of me.
_ [Eb] _
[Dm] What [F] is [Gm] to be, must be. _ _
[Dm] Every day the buck [Gm] goes to the world.
_ [Eb] But one [F] day the bottom [Gm] will drop out.
_ Yes, [F] one day the bottom [Gm] will drop out.
[G] I [F] say,
_ [C] _ _ [Bb] _ [G] _ _ _ _