Screamin' Jay Hawkins, in At Last, 1998.On Erik Truffaz' 1998 album The Dawn, the final track 'Free Stylin'' with vocals by Nya contains the lyric 'Bob shot the sheriff me, I come to finish the deputy.'.

In the 1994 hip hop mockumentary Fear of a Black Hat, a scene involving gangsta rapper Ice Cold ( Rusty Cundieff) getting pulled over by a gated community’s security guard unit has one guard confiscating one of his registered guns and sarcastically says: 'Let me guess…you shot the sheriff, but you didn’t shoot the deputy.'.Blige's 1992 debut album ( What's the 411?), Grand Puba declared 'I shot the sheriff and put six up in the deputy' in the title track. On EPMD's 1988 Strictly Business LP, the title track uses a sample of 'I Shot the Sheriff' (Clapton's version).British band, Light of the World recorded a jazzed-up version in 1980.On the 16 February 1977 episode of The Jacksons, 'I Shot the Sheriff' was mashed up with 'Cisco Kid' and was led by singer Michael Jackson in an old western bar scene.^shipments figures based on certification alone *sales figures based on certification alone Songid field is MANDATORY FOR GERMAN CHARTSĮxpression error: Missing operand for *. Eric Clapton versionįile:I Shot the Sheriff by Eric Clapton UK vinyl 1974.jpg

In 2012, Bob Marley's former girlfriend Esther Anderson claimed that the lyrics, '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' are actually about Marley being very opposed to her use of birth control pills Marley supposedly substituted the word 'doctor' with sheriff. In 1992, with the controversy surrounding the Ice-T song ' Cop Killer', Marley's song was often cited by Ice-T's supporters as evidence of his detractors' hypocrisy considering the older song was never similarly criticized despite having much the same theme. 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 idea: justice.' The song was first released in 1973 on The Wailers' album Burnin'. The narrator also claims to have acted in self-defense when the sheriff tried to shoot him. The story is told from the point of view of a narrator who admits to having killed the local sheriff, and claims to be falsely accused of having killed the deputy sheriff.

4 Later samplings, allusions and covers.