I Shot The Sheriff chords by Projekt Ekan

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I   shot the sheriff, but I didn't shoot no deputy,
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oh no, oh
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I shot the sheriff, but I  didn't shoot no deputy,
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ooh, ooh, ooh
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All around in my hometown,
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they trying to track me down
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They say they want to bring me in guilty,
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for the killing of a
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deputy
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For the life of a deputy
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Well I say, I
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shot the sheriff,
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but the sheriff wasn't
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serving us, I said
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I   shot the sheriff
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and they say he's
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a capital offense
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Sheriff John Brown
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always hated me
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For what? I don't know
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Every time I plant a seed
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He say kill it before it grow
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He say kill them before they grow
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And so, and so,
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read it in the news
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I shot the sheriff
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But I swear it was in self -defense
Where was the deputy?
I say I shot the sheriff
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But I swear it was in self -defense,
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Freedom came my way
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one day
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And I started out of town,
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All of a sudden I saw
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Sheriff John Brown
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Came in to shoot me down
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So I shot, I shot, I shot them down
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And I say, if
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I am guilty I will pay
I shot the sheriff,
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but I didn't shoot no  deputy
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I didn't shoot no deputy no
I shot the sheriff,
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but I didn't shoot the deputy
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Reflexes are the better
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of me
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An  d   what is to
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be must be
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Every day the pocket a go a   well
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One day the bottom of a drop out
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One day the bottom of a drop out
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I say I, I,
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I,  I shot the sheriff
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Lord, I didn't shot the deputy
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Yeah, I, I
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Got the cherry
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But I didn't shoot no deputy
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Yeah, so, yeah
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I'm and