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Friday, September 30, 2005
Sheriff John Brown always hated me...
Dear Tim,
Why did he shoot the sheriff but not the deputy?
Dear Comrades, (wow, sounds like I should follow that up with a manifesto)
I believe you are refering to the song "I Shot the Sheriff", by Bob Marley, and not the cover by Eric Clapton.
Well, as to why he shot the sheriff, that is made clear in the song, the sheriff hated him and promised to crush anything he tried to do. It was obviously something done in self-defense, but he never explains why he didn't shoot the deputy
The deputy was shot by someone, as the protagonist of the song was wrongly accused for it, but the song never clearly states why he didn't do it.
Perhaps, he had no personal beef with the deputy, only with the sheriff. And once John Brown was out of the way, things would be better once the deputy was promoted
Perhaps he had every intent on killing the deputy, but someone beat him to it.
There's a rumor that the deputy was in on it, and later killed by a family member of the Sheriff as retribution, but since small town CSI is never very good, they just assumed it was the same man who killed the sheriff.
All we really know is that both the sheriff and the deputy are dead, so if you are going to break some laws, now is definitely the time to do it!
***Did you know*** In a 2001 documentary The life of Bob Marley, an ex-girlfriend, Esther Anderson, claimed that the song was about birth control, and that she helped write it.
Why did he shoot the sheriff but not the deputy?
~The Cross-Continent Comrades
Dear Comrades, (wow, sounds like I should follow that up with a manifesto)
I believe you are refering to the song "I Shot the Sheriff", by Bob Marley, and not the cover by Eric Clapton.
Well, as to why he shot the sheriff, that is made clear in the song, the sheriff hated him and promised to crush anything he tried to do. It was obviously something done in self-defense, but he never explains why he didn't shoot the deputy
The deputy was shot by someone, as the protagonist of the song was wrongly accused for it, but the song never clearly states why he didn't do it.
Perhaps, he had no personal beef with the deputy, only with the sheriff. And once John Brown was out of the way, things would be better once the deputy was promoted
Perhaps he had every intent on killing the deputy, but someone beat him to it.
There's a rumor that the deputy was in on it, and later killed by a family member of the Sheriff as retribution, but since small town CSI is never very good, they just assumed it was the same man who killed the sheriff.
All we really know is that both the sheriff and the deputy are dead, so if you are going to break some laws, now is definitely the time to do it!
***Did you know*** In a 2001 documentary The life of Bob Marley, an ex-girlfriend, Esther Anderson, claimed that the song was about birth control, and that she helped write it.
:: posted by timothy, 12:57 PM
