I Shot The Sheriff - Live At The Rainbow Theatre, London / 1977

It was I who shot the sheriff
But I didn't shoot no deputy
It was I who shot the sheriff
But I didn't shoot no deputy

It goes like this

All around in my hometown
They are trying to drag me down
They say they want to bring I in guilty
For the life of a deputy
For the life of a deputy, now

But I said
If I am guilty I will pay

I shot the sheriff
But I swear it was in self-defense
It was I who shot the sheriff
And they say it is a capital offense

But see
Sheriff John Brown always says I
For what, I don't know, now
Every time I plant a seed
He'll say heal them before they grow
He'll say heal them before they grow, now

And so
And so

Bye, bye, bye I shot the sheriff
Lord, I didn't shoot a deputy
It was I who shot the sheriff
But I didn't shoot no deputy

Freedom pave my way one day, now
And I started out of town, yeah
Then all of a sudden I saw Sheriff John Brown
He was aiming to shoot I down

So I, oh yes, I
I shot him down
And I said
If I am guilty I will pay

'Cause I shot the sheriff
But I swear it was in self-defense
It was I who shot the sheriff
And they say it is a capital offense

Reflexes at the better of me now
What is to be must be, yeah
If every day, the bucket goes to the well
I mean, one day the better will drop out

And I say
One day the better will drop out
And so