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[Assasin]

I Shot the Sheriff The anti-authoritative lyrics hit at the core of the status quo.


Bob Marley’s song I Shot the Sheriff






I Shot The Sheriff




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.


Sheriff Brown always hated me
For what I don’t know
Every time I plant a seed he said ‘Kill it before it grows’
He said ‘Kill them before they grow’
And so, and so
Read it in the news …


The version of Bob Marley’s song that was redone by Eric Clapton was ironically more popular on Jamaican radio than Bob’s version was. The anti-authoritative lyrics hit at the core of the status quo. The sentiments were even seen as being a direct challenge to the state with the violent and deadly attack that it seemed to promote.
However in it’s more figurative sense, it is assumed that Bob Marley’s lyrics were more directed towards highlighting the oppressive and brutal attitude that state agencies such as the police force had taken towards marijuana smoking Rastafarians, ‘kill them before they grow’.
Shooting the sheriff and not the deputy can be interpreted as a symbolic move of cutting through the red tape and attacking the establishment at the head. The deputy holds no power and is seen as being under the control of the more powerful sheriff.
In an interview Bob stated that he shot the sheriff and not the police, hitting at his Jamaican detractors who were perturbed by the so called violent nature of the lyrics. Is there a distinction to be made between the police and the sheriff? Yes, apparently by distinguishing between the police and the United States based sheriff Bob is moving beyond the local authorities and directly attacking the imperialist United States authorities that the sheriff would represent.

[Muadib]

“Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere is war and until there are no longer first-class and second-class citizens of any nation, until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes. And until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race, there is war. And until that day, the dream of lasting peace, world citizenship, rule of international morality, will remain but a fleeting illusion to be pursued, but never attained... now everywhere is war.”

Meditate pon dat yute.

[Sir X]

How do you equate boom bye bye with violence , its a spiritual boom bye bye that they should purify demselves like a more fiya kinda thing.

You should have been at the ARK in brooklyn to feel it.

[Muadib]

what you need is some time by yourself to ponder and rethink this thing...

Separate your emotions from the issue and apply Critical Thinking...

Decide which is the greater 'evil'.. Intolerance or Sexual Orientation...

Then decide which one you should dedicate to fighting..

[Muadib]

must be his homophobic lyrics...

[Assasin]

why was it banned in some places? It is not what you think, it is what they think.

[Mosiah]

and where is the controversy with elton john?

[Muadib]

no.. maybe di backlash would have been counteracted by the fact that the sheriff deserved to be shot...

[Muadib]

Dis site should be up for an award..

LOL !! WHOIEE !

[Assasin]

so you can kill everybody except gay?

[Don1]

Where did Historian suggest that the performers career depended on his sympathy.. ?

Try once again.

No...yuh too backward...waste of my time.

Mek Historian fight im owna bakkle...from what I've seen he's far more capable than you at that task.

[Mosiah]

got it from buju.

[Muadib]

What yuh saying ?

Buju is a hypocrite and a liar ?

"Throughout my travels as an artiste, I have witnessed first- hand the senseless atrocities being suffered by innocent people around the world, and my heart goes out to them. I do not condone violence against anyone, including gays, and I have spent my career rallying against violence and injustice through music. "

[Mosiah]

You know the lyrics to that song? Talk sense assasin.

[Muadib]

maybe the Sheriff was gay ?