I Shot the Sheriff (Bob Marley & The Wailers cover) - Eric Clapton (live) - video Dailymotion

Eric Clapton - The Definitive 24 Nights Orchestral With National Philharmonic Orchestra At Royal Albert Hall, London, England  March 7, 1991

Transcript

01:30All around in my hometown, they're trying to track me down

01:41And they say they want to bring me in guilty

01:47For the killing of a deputy, for the life of a deputy

01:57And I say

02:05I sought to surrender, but I did not see no deputy

02:14I sought to surrender, but I did not see no deputy

02:25Sheriff John Brown always hated me, what I don't know

02:35And every time that I planned a scene, he said kill it before it grows

02:43He said kill it before it grows, and I say no

02:54I sought to surrender, but I swear it was a self defense

03:04I sought to surrender, they said you did the capital offense

03:14The real came my way one day, like starting out of town

03:24All of a sudden I see Sheriff John Brown, aiming to shoot me down

03:32So I, thought I had to shoot him down, like a real deputy

03:45I sought to surrender, but I did not see no deputy

03:53I sought to surrender, but I did not see no deputy

04:03He thought he got the best of me, what for me was he

04:14Every day the bucket goes to the well, one day the bucket must stop now

04:22And I said one day, one day, I'm gonna cross that river, I said

04:33I sought to surrender, but I did not see no deputy

04:43I sought to surrender, but I did not see no deputy

05:02I sought to surrender, but I did not see no deputy

05:32I sought to surrender, but I did not see no deputy

05:42I sought to surrender, but I did not see no deputy

05:52I sought to surrender, but I did not see no deputy

06:02I sought to surrender, but I did not see no deputy

06:12I sought to surrender, but I did not see no deputy

06:22I sought to surrender, but I did not see no deputy

06:32I sought to surrender, but I did not see no deputy

06:42I sought to surrender, but I did not see no deputy

06:52I sought to surrender, but I did not see no deputy

07:02I sought to surrender, but I did not see no deputy

07:12I sought to surrender, but I did not see no deputy

07:22I sought to surrender, but I did not see no deputy

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