I Shot The Sheriff

[00:03.63] (I shot the sheriff, but I didn't shoot no deputy, oh no, oh

[00:10.89] I shot the sheriff, but I didn't shoot no deputy, ooh, ooh, ooh)

[00:20.88] Yeah, all around in my home town

[00:25.63] They're tryin' to track me down

[00:30.89] They say they want to bring me in guilty

[00:35.38] For the killing of a deputy

[00:40.13] For the life of a deputy, but I say

[00:45.89] Oh, now, now, oh

[00:52.14] (I shot the sheriff) the sheriff

[00:55.39] (But I swear it was in self defense) oh, no (oh, oh, ooh)

[01:01.63] Yeah, I say, I shot the sheriff oh, Lord! (and they say it is a capital offense)

[01:08.89] Yeah! (oh, oh, ooh) yeah

[01:12.64] Sheriff John Brown always hated me

[01:16.89] For what, I don't know

[01:21.38] Every time I plant a seed

[01:26.39] He said kill it before it grow

[01:31.39] He said kill them before they grow, and so

[01:36.38] Read it in the news! (I shot the sheriff) oh, Lord

[01:45.64] (But I swear it was in self-defense)

[01:50.64] Where was the deputy? (oh, oh, ooh)

[01:52.38] I say, I shot the sheriff

[01:56.89] But I swear it was in self defense, yeah (ooh)

[02:03.39] Freedom came my way one day

[02:09.39] And I started out of town, yeah

[02:12.88] All of a sudden I saw sheriff John Brown

[02:17.63] Aiming to shoot me down

[02:22.38] So I shot, I shot, I shot him down and I say

[02:32.39] If I am guilty I will pay

[02:37.88] I didn't shoot no deputy (oh, no-oh) oh no

[02:47.39] (I shot the sheriff) I did

[02:51.88] But I didn't shoot no deputy, oh (oh, oh, ooh)

[02:57.88] Reflexes had got the better of me

[03:02.39] And what is to be must be

[03:07.14] Every day the bucket a-go a well

[03:12.63] One day the bottom a-go drop out

[03:17.63] One day the bottom a-go drop out, I say

[03:27.39] I, I, I, I, shot the sheriff

[03:31.39] Lord, I didn't shot the deputy, no

[03:38.38] I, I (shot the sheriff)

[03:45.88] But I didn't shoot no deputy, yeah

[03:49.13] So, yeah