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I SHOT THE SHERIFF
ERIC CLAPTON (BOB MARLEY)
Album "461 Ocean Boulevard" (1974)


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I shot the sheriff,  - but I did not shoot the deputy
|Gm                 |Cm7                      |Gm       |Gm       |
I shot the sheriff,  - but I did not shoot the deputy
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 -. All around in my home town    . they're trying to track me down
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. They say they want to bring me in guilty       . for the killing of a deputy,
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For the life of a deputy      / But I say (*)

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I shot the sheriff,   - but I swear it was in self-defence
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I shot the sheriff,   - but I swear it was in self-defence
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 - Sheriff John Brown always hated me   . for what I don't know
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. Ev'ry time   that I plant a seed   he said "Kill it before     it grow,"
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. He said   "Kill it before it grow"    / But I say (*)

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I shot the sheriff,   - but I swear it was in self-defence
|Gm                  |Cm7                      |Gm         |Gm       |
I shot the sheriff,   - but I swear it was in self-defence
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 -. Freedom came my way one day     . and I started out of town
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. All of a sudden I see sheriff John Brown, - aiming to shoot me down
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So I shot,  I shot him down  But I say (*)

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I shot the sheriff,   - but I did not shoot the deputy
|Gm                 |Cm7                       |Gm       |Gm      |
I shot the sheriff,   - but I did not shoot the deputy
|Eb        /Dm7       |Gm            |Eb           /Dm7      |Gm      |
 - . Reflexes got the better of me   . and what is to be must be
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 - Ev'ry day the bucket goes to the well, - but one day the bottom will drop out
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. Yes one day the bottom will drop out  But I say  (*)

Reprise du dernier couplet : 2 premières lignes chantées uniquement

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 I shot the sheriff, de Eric clapton 

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