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