I Shot The Sheriff Chords by Eric Clapton

[Start]

[Chorus]
G7         Cm7    
I shot the sheriff
                        G7    
But I did not shoot the deputy
Gm            Cm     
■  I shot the sheriff
                       G7     Gm
But I didn't shoot the deputy ■ 


[Verse]
Eb Dm7              G7       Gm Gm7
■  All around in my hometown ■  ■  
Eb                Dm7      Gm7 
They're trying to track me down
Eb                    Dm7         G7     Gm
They say they want to bring me in guilty ■ 
Eb      Ebmaj7     Eb  Gm     Gm7
For the killing of the deputy ■  
Eb      Gm      Dm Gm    
For the life of a  deputy
      Gm  
But I said
G7 Gm            Cm     
■  ■  I shot the sheriff
                      G7          
But I swear it was in self defense
Gm            Cm7    
■  I shot the sheriff
         Cm          G7      Gm     
And they say it is a capital offense
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■  Sheriff John Brown always hated me
Eb          Dm7         Gm  
■  For what ■   I don't know
    Ebmaj7       Dm7                 Gm  
And ■      every time that I plant a seed
Eb              Dm7             Gm
He said Kill it before it grows ■ 
Eb           D7        G7      
He said Kill it before it grows
       Gm
I said ■ 
G7            Cm     
■  I shot the sheriff
                      Gm   G7      Gm7
But I swear it was in self defense ■  
G7            C7     
■  I shot the sheriff
                      G7           Gm
But I swear it was in self defense ■ 


[Chorus]
Eb D7              G7         
■  Freedom came my way one day
Eb       Dm7         Gm     
■  And I started out of town
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■  All of a sudden I see Sheriff John Brown ■ 
Dm              Gm     
Aiming to shoot me down
Eb        Dm7        G7      
So I shot ■   I shot him down
      G7  
And I said


[Verse]
           Cm     
I shot the sheriff
                        Gm     G7
But I did not shoot the deputy ■ 
Gm7 G7         Gm7     Cm
■   I shot the sheriff ■ 
                       G7    
But I didn't shoot the deputy
Eb Dm               Gm          
■  Reflexes got the better of me
Eb     Dm            Gm     
■  And what is to be must be
Eb Dm                   Gm               
■  Every day the bucket falls to the well


[Chorus]
Eb                     Gm           
But one day the bottom will drop out
Eb      Dm             Gm           
Yes one day the bottom will drop out
Gm7    Gm Gm7
I said ■  ■  
G7            C7     
■  I shot the sheriff
                       G7     C7
But I didn't shoot the deputy ■ 
G7   
Oh no
           C7     
I shot the sheriff
                       G7    
But I did not shoot no deputy
   G7
Oh no


[Outro]
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