Letra de I Shot The Sheriff - Ub40

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 self-defense)
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-defense)
https://www.coveralia.com/letras/i-shot-the-sheriff-ub40.php
Where was the deputy? (Oo-oo-oh)
I say: I shot the sheriff,
But I swear it was in self-defense, (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)
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!