I Shot The Sheriff - Live At The Lyceum, London/July 17,1975

I shot the sheriff, but I didn't shoot no deputy
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 Oh, no, oh
 I shot the sheriff, but I didn't shoot no deputy
 Ooh, ooh, ooh Yeah
 All around in my hometown
 They're tryin' to track me down, yeah
 They say they want to bring me in guilty
 For the killing of a deputy, for the life of a deputy
 
 But I say, oh, now, now...
 Oh, I shot the sheriff, but I swear it was in self defense
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 Ooh, ooh, ooh
 I said, I shot the sheriff, Oh Lord
 And they say it is a capital offense
 Ooh, ooh, ooh
 Hear this
 Sheriff John Brown always hated me
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 For what I don't know
 Ev'ry time I plant a seed
 He said, "Kill it before it grows."
 He said, "Kill them before they grow."
 And so, oh, now, now
 Read it in the news
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 I shot the sheriff, but I swear it was in self defense
 Ooh, ooh, ooh
 Where was the deputy?
 I said I shot the sheriff but I swear it was in self defense
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 Freedom came my way one day
 And I started out of town, yeah!
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 All of a sudden I saw Sheriff John Brown
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 Aiming to shoot me down
 So I shot, I shot, I shot him down
 And I say, if I am guilty I will pay
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 I shot the sheriff, but I say, but I didn't shoot no deputy
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 Ooh, no, oh
 I shot the sheriff, but I didn't shoot no deputy
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 Ooo, ooo, ooh
 Reflexes had the better of me
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 And what is to be must be
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 Ev'ry day the bucket a-go-a well
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 One day the bottom a-go drop out
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 One day the bottom a-go drop out
 I say, I, I, ...
 I, I shot the sheriff, but I didn't shoot the deputy, no