I Shot The Sheriff Uke tab by Bob Marley

F#m
 I shot the sheriff,

Bm                     F#m
 But I didn't shoot no deputy, oh no! Oh!

F#m
 I shot the sheriff,

Bm                     F#m
 But I didn't shoot no deputy. Ooh, ooh, oo-ooh.

 

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D     C#m      F#m
 All a-round in my home town,

        D        C#m       F#m
They're tryin' to track me down;

D             C#m                  F#m
 They say they want to bring me in guilty,

        D           C#m   F#m
For the killing of a depu-ty,

        D        C#m  F#m
For the life of a dep-uty. But I say...
 

(Riff)

 
F#m
 I shot the sheriff,

Bm                     F#m
 But I swear it was in self-defence. (Oh, no! Yeah!)

       F#m                     Bm
I say; I shot the sheriff, oh Lord!

                     F#m
And they say it is a capital offence. Yeah!

 

D       C#m                F#m
 Sheriff John Brown always hated me,

    D     C#m       F#m
For what... I don't know.

      D     C#m      F#m
Every time I plant a seed,

        D         C#m      F#m
He said kill it be-fore it grow,

        D           C#m        F#m
He said kill them be-fore they grow. And so, and so...

 

(Riff)
 

F#m
 I shot the sheriff,

Bm                     F#m
 But I swear it was in self-defence. I say;

F#m
 I shot the sheriff,

Bm                     F#m
 But I swear it was in self-defence. (Yeah!)



D               C#m      F#m
 Freedom came my way one day,

      D      C#m      F#m
And I started, out of town, yeah!

D        C#m           F#m
 All of a sudden I saw Sheriff John Brown,

D         C#m       F#m
 Aiming to shoot me down,

     D      C#m               F#m
So I shot, I shot, Yes I shot him down. And I say...

 

(Riff)
 

F#m
 I shot the sheriff,

Bm                     F#m
 But I didn't shoot no deputy, oh no! Oh!

F#m
 I shot the sheriff,

Bm                     F#m
 But I didn't shoot no deputy. Ooh, ooh, oo-ooh.


 

   D             C#m        F#m
Re-flexes had the better of me,

    D         C#m      F#m
And what is to be must be.

      D       C#m            F#m
Every day, the bucket goes to the well,

D           C#m          F#m
 One day the bottom a-go drop out,

D           C#m          F#m
 One day the bottom a-go drop out.

And so... 

(Riff)



    F#m
I-I-I, I shot the sheriff,

Bm                            F#m
 Lord, I didn't shot the depu-ty. No!

  F#m
I-I...(shot the sheriff),

Bm                     F#m
 But I didn't shoot no deputy. Yeah! So, yeah!
 

[Coda]

 

F#m  Bm

F#m

 

(Repeat to Fade)