Eric Clapton - I Shot The Sheriff (Live)

Thank you, my friend SGT (Join to see) for posting the music video of Eric Clapton performing a cover of Bob Marley's "I Shot The Sheriff" live from Chicago at Crossroads 2010.

I certainly enjoy listening to Eric Clapton. However I prefer the original songwriter's

For comparison
OFF COLLECTION - Bob Marley "I Shot The Sheriff" Live at the Rainbow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa0HOpQRpLM



I Shot the Sheriff written by Bob Marley
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, 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 self defense)
Oh, no! (Oh, oh, oh) Yeah!
I say: I shot the sheriff oh, Lord!
(And they say it is a capital offense)
Yeah! (oh, oh, 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-defense.)
Where was the deputy? (oh)
I say, I shot the sheriff,
But I swear it was in self defense. (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! (oh)
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. No!
I, I (shot the sheriff)
But I didn't shoot no deputy, yeah! So, yeah!"

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Always loved that song.

I like this song.