La canción I Shot the Sheriff fue escrita por Bob Marley y habla sobre la represión y la injusticia sufrida por los negros en esa época. La letra cuenta la historia de un hombre que admite haber disparado al sheriff, pero niega haber disparado al delegado. La canción ha sido interpretada como una metáfora de la lucha contra el opresivo sistema colonial y policial en Jamaica. Marley explicó que la letra también refleja conflictos personales y la d ... Ver más [+] efensa de la autodefensa
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I shot the sheriff,
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But I didn't shoot no deputy, oh no! Oh!
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I shot the sheriff,
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But I didn't shoot no deputy. Ooh, ooh, oo-ooh.
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All a-round in my home town,
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They're tryin' 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 depu-ty,
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For the life of a dep-uty. But I say... *(Riff):
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I shot the sheriff,
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But I swear it was in self-defence. (Oh, no! Yeah!)
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I say; I shot the sheriff, oh Lord!
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And they say it is a capital offence. Yeah!
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Sheriff John Brown 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 said kill it be-fore it grow,
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He said kill them be-fore they grow. And so, and so... *(Riff):
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I shot the sheriff,
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But I swear it was in self-defence. I say;
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I shot the sheriff,
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But I swear it was in self-defence. (Yeah!)
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Freedom came my way one day,
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And I started, out of town, yeah!
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All of a sudden I saw Sheriff John Brown,
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Aiming to shoot me down,
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So I shot, I shot, I shot him down. And I say... *(Riff):