(I shot the sherif       [Chorus #1] C#m C#m F#m F#m

 (But I didn't shoot no deputy) x2)  C#m C#m C#m C#m

All around, in my hometown   - … [Verse] AM7 G#m

They trying to track me down - …         C#m   C#m

They say they wanna bring me - In guilty

For the killing of a deputy  - …          [Riff]

For the life of a deputy - But I say  Oh now, oh

(But I swear it was in self-defense/ [Chorus #2]

 And they say it is

     a capital offense) x2)      [*Riff] C#m G#m

                                         F#m C#m X

Sheriff John Brown always hated me - …

For what, I don't know        - …         [Riff]

Every time I plant a seed     - …   Read it in

He say kill it before it grow - …     the (news)

He say kill them before they grow

And so                             [Chorus #2

                                     Parts #1-1]

Freedom came my way one day     - …

And I started out of town, yeah - … ═════════╗

All of a sudden          ║     Bob Marley    ║

I saw Sherif John Brown  ║ I Shot the Sherif ║

Aiming to shoot me down - … ═════════════ [Riff]

So (I shot x3) him down        If I am guilty, I

And I say                       will pay - X X X

Reflexes had the better of me    - … [Chorus #1]

And what is to be must be        - …

Every day the bucket a-go a-well - … [Riff] I, I

(One day the bottom                  [Chorus #1]

     have a dropout - (…/I say) x2)  [Solo] (x4)