I Shot Sheriff Bob Marley

1. Fulu Thompho from Limpopo, South Africa this song tells a story about a persecution between a sheriff, john brown and bob marley. Brown was a white racist who felt that bob should not be given an opportunity to succeed in life because he is more or less black. One day bob decided to shot brown after realizing that brown is about to shoot him.
2. 'I Shot The Sheriff' was written and originally recorded by Bob Marley in 1973. Clapton heard it when a member of his band played the Bob Marley album for him and convinced him to record it. Eric Clapton was part of the seminal bands Cream, Blind Faith, The Yardbirds and Derek & The Dominos.

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• Marley I Shot The Sheriff

'I Shot the Sheriff' is a song written by Bob Marley. The song was first released on The Wailers' album Burnin'. Eric Clapton recorded a cover version that was included on his album, 461 Ocean Boulevard.It is the most successful version of the song, peaking at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Clapton's only chart-topping hit in the U.S. About “I Shot The Sheriff” Bob Marley here tells a story from the point of view of a narrator who admits to having killed the local sheriff, and claims to be falsely accused of having killed the.

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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,)

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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!

I Shot the Sheriff is a song performed by Bob Marley and the Wailers. In the song’s lyrics, the narrator kills a local sheriff after claiming the sheriff tried shooting him. However, he is falsely accused of shooting and killing the deputy sheriff of his area – an accusation which he vehemently denies. According to Marley, in writing the song, he wanted to use the phrase “I shot the police” instead of “I shot the sheriff” but was afraid that the authorities would have created a “fuss” out of that, so decided to use the latter phrase instead to avoid any unnecessary issues.

Facts about “I Shot the Sheriff”

Marley I Shot The Sheriff

• The song was solely written by Bob Marley.
• The song was the third track on the side one of the 1973 album Burnin’ by The Wailers (later known as Bob Marley and the Wailers).
• A music video was never made for I Shot the Sheriff.
• Several years after Marley’s death, Jamaican filmmaker and actress Esther Anderson, who was once a girlfriend of Marley, said she helped Marley write the song. She said of the line in which Marley sings about “Sheriff John Brown” hating him and always wanting to kill the seeds he planted was about Marley being against her use of birth control pills during their relationship. Anderson said Marley used the word “sheriff” in place of “doctor”.
• I Shot the Sheriff has over the years been covered by numerous musicians, but none of the covers has been as famous as Eric Clapton’s 1974 cover. Clapton’s version was so popular that it not only brought Marley’s version into the limelight but it also exposed Marley to rock music fans all over the world. In addition to that, Clapton’s version of I Shot the Sheriff was so successful that it reached the number 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and in 2003 received an induction into the Grammy Hall of Fame.