BOB MARLEY

CANCION: I SHOT THE SHERIFF

AÑO : 1973.

ALBUM: Burning´.

ORIGEN : Nine Miles/Saint Ann/Jamaica.

DISQUERA : Tuff Gong/Island.

GENERO : Reggae.

PRODUCTOR : Chris Blackwell and The Wailers.

GRABADO EN : Harry J. Studios, Kingston/Jamaica.

NOMBRE VERDADERO : Robert Nesta Marley.

LETRA :

(I shot the sheriff
But I didn't shoot no deputy, oh no! Oh!
I shot the sheriff
But I didn't shoot no deputy, ooh, ooh, oo-ooh.)
Yeah! All around in my home town,
They're tryin' to track me down;
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.) - the sheriff.
(But I swear it was in selfdefence.)
Oh, no! (Ooh, ooh, oo-oh) Yeah!
I say: I shot the sheriff - Oh, Lord! -
(And they say it is a capital offence.)
Yeah! (Ooh, ooh, oo-oh) Yeah!

Sheriff John Brown always hated me,
For what, I don't know:
Every time I plant a seed,
He said kill it before it grow -
He said kill them before they grow.
And so:

Read it in the news:
(I shot the sheriff.) Oh, Lord!
(But I swear it was in self-defence.)
Where was the deputy? (Oo-oo-oh)
I say: I shot the sheriff,
But I swear it was in selfdefence. (Oo-oh) Yeah!

Freedom came my way one day
And I started out of town, yeah!
All of a sudden I saw sheriff John Brown
Aiming to shoot me down,
So I shot - I shot - I shot him down and I say:
If I am guilty I will pay.

(I shot the sheriff,)
But I say (But I didn't shoot no deputy),
I didn't shoot no deputy (oh, no-oh), oh no!
(I shot the sheriff.) I did!
But I didn't shoot no deputy. Oh! (Oo-oo-ooh)

Reflexes had got the better of me
And what is to be must be:
Every day the bucket a-go a well,
One day the bottom a-go drop out,
One day the bottom a-go drop out.
I say:

I - I - I - I shot the sheriff.
Lord, I didn't shot the deputy. Yeah!
I - I (shot the sheriff) -
But I didn't shoot no deputy, yeah! No, yeah!

Lugar Concierto: LYCEUM BALLROOM EN LONDRES(1975).

Esta cancion es originalmente de este album que data de 1973, pero esta version hace parte del album en vivo que se llamo "Live" un concierto que Bob Marley , realizara despues de que Neville O'Riley Livingstone ( Bunny Wailer) y a Peter Tosh se retiraran del grupo, para comenzar sus carreras en solitario, asi que junto a Rita Anderson(su esposa) Marcia Griffiths y Judy Mowatt. El grupo pasó a denominarse 'Bob Marley & The Wailers'.