Eric Clapton, I Shot The Sheriff (1974)
Key: :[G#m] (w: Bob Marley) (BPM: 94)
CHORUS 1:
[G#m] I shot the sheriff,
[C#m] but I didn't shoot the
[G#m] deputy
[G#m] I shot the sheriff,
[C#m] but I didn't shoot the
[G#m] deputy
VERSE 1:
[E] All a-
[D#7]-round in my
[G#m] home town
They're
[E] trying to
[D#7] track me
[G#m] down
They
[E] say they want to
[D#7] bring me in
[G#m] guilty
For the
[E] killing of a
[D#7] deputy
[G#m]
For the
[E] life of a
[D#7] deputy
[G#m]; But I say
[*F1]
CHORUS 2:
[G#m] I shot the sheriff,
[C#m] but I swear it was in self-
[G#m]-defence
[G#m] I shot the sheriff,
[C#m] and they say it is a capital
[G#m] offence
VERSE 2:
[E] Sheriff John
[D#7] Brown always
[G#m] hated me
For
[E] what
[D#7] I don't
[G#m] know
[E] Every-
[D#7]-time that I
[G#m] plant a seed
He said
[E] "Kill it be-
[D#7]-fore it
[G#m] grow"
He said
[E] "Kill it be-
[D#7]-fore it
[G#m] grow", I say
[*F1]
CHORUS 3:
[G#m] I shot the sheriff,
[C#m] but I swear it was in
[G#m] self-defence
[G#m] I shot the sheriff,
[C#m] but I swear it was in
[G#m] self-defence
VERSE 3:
[E] Freedom
[D#7] came my
[G#m] way one day
And I
[E] started
[D#7] out of
[G#m] town
All of a sudden I see Sheriff John Brown
[E] Aiming to
[D#7] shoot me
[G#m] down
So I
[E] shot, I
[D#7] shot him
[G#m] down; I say
[*F1]
REPEAT CHORUS 1:
VERSE 4:
[E] Re-
[D#7]-flexes got the
[G#m] better of me
And
[E] what is to
[D#7] be must
[G#m] be
[E] Every-
[D#7]-day the
[G#m] bucket goes to the well
But one
[E] day the
[D#7] bottom will
[G#m] drop out
Yes one
[E] day the
[D#7] bottom will
[G#m] drop out; I say:
[*F1]
REPEAT CHORUS 1:
