I Shot The Sheriff – Bob Marley and the Wailers – Isolated Bass & Drums

I Shot The Sheriff – Bob Marley and the Wailers – Isolated Bass & Drums – Bass level elevated – Published to help you hear and learn the bass and drums parts to the song – Quintessential reggae bass – Lyrics below

Album Info:

Album Title – Burnin’
Release Date – 19 October 1973

Album Tracks:

Side One

1. Get Up, Stand Up
2. Hallelujah Time
3. I Shot the Sheriff
4. Burnin’ and Lootin’
5. Put It On

Side Two

1. Small Axe
2. Pass It On
3. Duppy Conqueror
4. One Foundation
5. Rasta Man Chant

Bob Marley and the Wailers Band Members:

Bob Marley – guitar, vocals
Peter Tosh – guitar, vocals, keyboards
Bunny Wailer – percussion, vocals
Aston Barrett – bass
Carlton Barrett – drums
Earl Lindo – keyboards

“I Shot The Sheriff” Lyrics

(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 selfdefence.)
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-defence.)
Where was the deputy? (Oo-oo-oh)
I say: I shot the sheriff,
But I swear it was in selfdefence. (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!

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I Shot The Sheriff – Bob Marley and the Wailers – Isolated Bass & Drums