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1. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the Gatefold Vinyl release of Burnin' on Discogs. Label: Island Records - ILPS • Format: Vinyl LP, Album Gatefold • Country: UK • Genre: Reggae • Style: Roots Reggae/5().

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2. I Shot The Sheriff The Wailers From the album Burnin' (Deluxe Edition) Start Station. Start Station. Play Song. Play Song. Share. Share. 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.

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3. Burnin' is the album that promotes the Bob Marley & the Wailers into international fame, despite that they were already achieving commercial success especially in the Western Hemisphere. Although it is not the debut for the ban, many would considered Burnin' to be the debut album on an international level of fame/5().

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4. Burnin' - What a classic album! So much has been written about it that there is no need for me to address it. You simply must have it and love it. What I want to review is the included bonus disc of the original Wailers live at Leeds in Folks, this alone is reason enough to seek out this particular release/5(86).

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5. "I Shot the Sheriff," the album's most celebrated song, which became a number one hit in the hands of Eric Clapton in , claims self-defense, admits consequences ("If I am guilty I will pay"), and emphasizes the isolated nature of the killing ("I didn't shoot no deputy"), but its central image is violent.

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6. Bob Marley and the Wailers version. The narrator claims to have acted in self-defense when the sheriff tried to shoot him. The song was first released in on The Wailers' album Burnin'.Marley explained his intention as follows: "I want to say 'I shot the police' but the government would have made a fuss so I said 'I shot the sheriff' instead but it's the same .

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7. The sixth album by Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer (the last before Tosh and Bunny departed for solo careers and the band became known as Bob Marley and the Wailers), Burnin ' opens with a signature song, the call to action "Get Up, Stand Up" and includes a more confrontational and militant tone than previous records, such as in another Marley standard .

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8. I Shot The Sheriff 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.

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