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- From uunet!decwrl!deccrl!bloom-beacon!eru.mt.luth.se!lunic!sunic!dkuug!diku!shotokan Tue Sep 8 07:40:54 PDT 1992
- Article: 2073 of alt.guitar.tab
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- From: shotokan@diku.dk (Kim H|glund)
- Newsgroups: alt.guitar.tab
- Subject: CHORDS: I Shot The Sheriff -- Bob Marley
- Message-ID: <1992Sep7.131824.16272@odin.diku.dk>
- Date: 7 Sep 92 13:18:24 GMT
- Sender: shotokan@sif.diku.dk
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen
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- I believe there were a request a couple of weeks ago for some Marley
- songs... Disclaimer: I haven't been playing theses songs for a long,
- long time so chord changes etc. may be slightly off. Anyway, you
- should be able to get the general idea.
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- I SHOT THE SHERIFF (Bob Marley)
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-
- Gm Gm
- I shot the sheriff,
- Cm Cm Gm Gm Gm Gm
- but I did not shoot the deputy.
- Gm Gm
- I shot the sheriff,
- Cm Cm Gm Gm Gm Gm
- but I did not shoot the deputy.
- Eb Dm Gm Gm
- All around in my home town
- Eb Dm Gm Gm
- they're trying to track me down.
- Eb Dm Gm Gm
- They say they want to bring me in guilty
- Eb Dm Gm Gm
- for the killing of a deputy,
- Eb Dm7 Gm Gm
- for the killing of a deputy.
- Gm Gm Gm Gm
- But I say:
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- I shot the sheriff,
- but I swear it was in selfdefence.
- I shot the sheriff,
- but I swear it was in selfdefence.
- Sheriff John Brown always hated me
- for what I don't know.
- Ev'ry time that I plant a seed
- he said "Kill it before it grow,"
- he said "Kill it before it grow."
- But I say:
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- I shot the sheriff,
- but I swear it was in selfdefence.
- I shot the sheriff,
- but I swear it was in selfdefence.
- Freedom came my way one day
- and I started out of town.
- All of a sudden I see sheriff John Brown,
- aiming to shoot me down.
- So I shot, I shot him down.
- But I say:
-
- I shot the sheriff,
- but I did not shoot the deputy.
- I shot the sheriff,
- but I did not shoot the deputy.
- Reflexes got the better of me
- and what is to be must be.
- Ev'ry day the bucket goes to the well,
- but one day the bottom will drop out,
- yes one day the bottom will drop out.
- But I say:
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- Enjoy,
- Kim
-
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- Kim H|glund, shotokan@diku.dk, CS Dept. at U of Copenhagen, Denmark
- "I've got plenty of common sense. I just choose to ignore it." -- Calvin
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