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Is It True That Bob Marley Really Shot A Sheriff?- By Reid Stewart (Watch)

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Is It True That Bob Marley Really Shot A Sheriff?- By Reid Stewart (Watch)

  

So Bob has a little garden where he grows a sensible amount of sensi.

Along comes sheriff John Brown who says “Your little garden is illegal. You aren’t allowed to self medicate with that plant. Even if it is part of your deeply held religious beliefs.” The sheriff proceeds to destroy the garden and Bob escapes.

Now every time Bob tries to grow another garden (not just the herb, but anything productive Bob tries to do) the sheriff comes before it can grow and kills it. This goes on for far too long. Bob gets a job. John Brown gets him fired. Bob builds a house. John Brown burns it down. Bob makes a sandcastle. John Brown kicks it down.

Finally Bob has had enough and decides to leave town but on his way out the sheriff finds and confronts him. The sheriff is aiming to kill Bob. So in self defense Bob kills sheriff John Brown.

Now Bob is hiding out, waiting for an opportunity to escape but everyone in town is looking for him because they know he killed sheriff John Brown but somehow they also believe that he has killed the deputy. But Bob didn’t kill the deputy, he only killed sheriff John Brown in self defense.

To date no one knows who killed the deputy. Or why the deputy was killed. The case has long since gone cold and most have lost any hope of a suspect ever being found.

*- This song is a work of fiction written by Mr. Bob Marley. Bob never killed anyone. I’m sure he had a garden or two though.

  

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  • By Timothy Sasscer

Marley had explained why he chose the figure of the sheriff, which is not a figure in Jamaican law enforcement.

“I want to say ‘I shot the police,’ but the government would have made a fuss,” Marley said in an interview reprinted on the Bob Marley website. “So I said ‘I shot the sheriff’ instead. But it’s the same idea: justice.”

Says Lee Jaffe, a character you should know if you’re interested in Marley’s history:

“…The song came out of me playing harmonica on a beach in Jamaica. Bob was playing guitar and he said, “I shot the sheriff,” and I said, “But you didn’t get the deputy.” It was a joke, because they don’t have sheriffs in Jamaica. Bob was funny, he was witty, so it was about him hanging out with this white guy, me, it was a comment about that. And yes, it came out of Western movies, which Jamaicans really love. “The Good, The Bad and the Ugly” was always playing somewhere in Kingston. So they’re into that whole attitude, and here Bob was hanging out with this white guy, so it was like being in some Western movie with me. I remember there was these two really, really fat girls dancing on the beach when Bob came out with that line. And then, it was like such a funny song, the beach wasn’t that crowded, but we had a whole bunch of people just dancing to that song. I wrote down all the lyrics that Bob was singing, and I was excited ‘cause I knew it was a big song and I felt I was integral to its conception. And then I came up with the line, “all along in Trench Town, the jeeps go round and round,” ‘cause the police and military drove jeeps and I was thinking of the curfews that were being called in the ghetto and what it was like for the poor people, the sufferers, to live in a militarized zone and to have the basic freedom of walking in the street taken away. I think of what a genius Bob was for coming out with the line “I shot the sheriff” because, though it was funny, it was also so poignant, so relevant to the global repression. Later he changed the line to “all around in my home town” and that was better, because it made the point that these violent interventions into everyday life in the shanty towns of Jamaica were intrinsically foreign influences. And when I said, “But you didn’t get the deputy,” it was ironic and slightly self-deprecating, because what it was saying was yeah, I got the balls to
shoot the sheriff, but I don’t have it together to get all his backup. And this is going to be a long tragic struggle that’s going to need a lot of everyday heroes….

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