I Shot the Sheriff - Jeremy Oates&The Music Makers

[00:00.85]I shot the sheriff but I didn't shoot no deputy
[00:08.07]Oh no oh
[00:11.41]I shot the sheriff but I didn't shoot no deputy
[00:18.78]Ooh ooh ooh
[00:23.09]All around in my home town
[00:27.6]They're trying to track me down
[00:32.71]They say they want to bring me in guilty
[00:37.47]For the killing of a deputy
[00:42.76]For the life of a deputy but I say
[00:52.48]Oh now now oh
[00:55.17]I shot the sheriff but I swear it was in self defense
[01:02.46]Oh no oh yeah I say
[01:05.74]I shot the sheriff and they say it is a capital offense
[01:13.03]Oh oh oh
[01:17.15]Sheriff john brown always hated me
[01:21.06]For what I don't know
[01:27.09]Every time that I plant a seed
[01:31.49]He said kill it before it grows
[01:36.7]He said kill it before it grows and so and so
[01:41.57]Read it in the news
[01:43.880005]I shot the sheriff but I swear it was in self defense
[01:52.369995]Where was the deputy
[01:58.53]I say I shot the sheriff but I swear it was in self defense
[02:11.06]Freedom came my way one day
[02:15.47]I started out of town yeah
[02:20.85]All of a sudden I sew sheriff john brown
[02:26.12]Aiming to shoot me down
[02:30.33]So I shot I shot I shot him down
[02:35.22]And I say
[02:41.36]If I am guilty I will pay
[02:46.62]I shot the sheriff
[02:49.20999]But I say but I didn't shoot no deputy
[02:53.45999]Oh no oh
[02:56.31]I shot the sheriff but I didn't shoot no deputy
[03:04.39]Oh oh oh
[03:08.51]Reflexes had got the better of me
[03:13.08]And what is to be must be
[03:18.44]Every day the bucket a go a well
[03:23.7]One day the bottom a go drop out
[03:28.78]One day the bottom a go drop out
[03:33.01]I say
[03:39.55]I I i I shot the sheriff
[03:43.53]Lord I didn't shot the deputy no
[03:51.01]I I shot the sheriff
[03:54.03]But I didn't shoot no deputy yeah so yeah