I Shot The Sheriff Chords by Bob Marley The Wailers

[Start]

[Chorus]
Gm                     Cm                    D7 Gm     G7         
■  (i shot the sheriff ■  but I didn't shoot no deputy ■  oh no oh
Gm                    Cm                    G7        Gm      G7  
■  I shot the sheriff ■  but I didn't shoot no deputy ooh ooh ooh)


[Verse]
Gm   Eb            Gm             
Yeah ■  all around in my home town
Eb      Dm7             Gm     
They're tryin' to track me down
Eb                             Gm       
They say they want to bring me in guilty
Eb              Dm   Gm    
For the killing of a deputy
Eb                Gm     D7 G7  Cm      
For the life of a deputy ■  but ■  I say


[Chorus]
Gm           
Oh now now oh
Cm         
The sheriff
Cm   
Oh no
       G7  Gm                    Cm     
Yeah I say ■  I shot the sheriff oh Lord
D7   Gm  
Yeah yeah


[Verse]
Eb Ebmaj7       D7                   
■  Sheriff John Brown always hated me
                      Gm
For what I don't know ■ 
           Eb D7      Gm  
Every time I  plant a seed
                Dm7    Dm      Gm
He said kill it before it grow ■ 
             Ebmaj7 Dm7    D7   Gm         
He said kill them   before they grow and so
                       Cm  
Read it in the news oh Lord
Gm                     
■  Where was the deputy
                 Cm     
I say I shot the sheriff
               Gm                  Ebmaj7     
But I swear it was in self defense ■      yeah


[Chorus]
                    Gm     
Freedom came my way one day
Eb                   Gm       
And I started out of town yeah
Ebmaj7 Gm     Dm7      Gm                      
■      All of a sudden I saw sheriff John Brown
Dm7             Gm     
Aiming to shoot me down
Eb        Dm       Gm                     
So I shot I shot I shot him down and I say
               G7        
If I am guilty I will pay
Cm Gm    Cm    
■  But I ■  say
               D7 Gm          
I didn't shoot no deputy oh no
Gm   
I did
Cm           Gm                
But I didn't shoot no deputy oh
Eb                          Gm   
Reflexes had got the better of me
Eb                Gm     
And what is to be must be
Eb        Dm         Gm        
Every day the bucket ago a well
    D7             Gm          
One day the bottom ago drop out
Eb                    Dm7      Gm7 Gm      
■  One day the bottom ago drop out ■  I say
D7 C7 G7 C7
■  ■  ■  ■ 


[Outro]
    Gm           Cm     
I I I I shot the sheriff
                       D7     Gm   
Lord I didn't shot the deputy ■  no
  Cm
I I 
                   D7 Gm         
But I didn't shoot no deputy yeah


[End]
   Gm7 Gm  
So ■   yeah