Posted by Bob Marley on December 31, 2006 at 21:48:15:
(I shot the Sole
But I didn’t shoot no Tongan, oh no! oh!
I shot the Sole
But I didn’t shoot da Tongan, ooh, ooh, oo-ooh.)
Yeah! all around in my home town,
They’re trying to track me down, yeah
They say they want to bring me in guilty
For the killing of a da Tongan,
For the life of a Tongan.
But I say:
Oh, now, now. oh!
(I shot the Sole.) - da Sole.
(but I swear it was in self-defense.)
Oh, no! (ooh, ooh, oo-oh) yeah!
I say: I shot the Sole - oh, lord! -
(and they say it is a capital offense.)
Yeah! (ooh, ooh, oo-oh) yeah! well in -
Tama Samoa always hated me,
For what, I don’t know:
Every time I plant a seed,
He said kill it before it grow -
He said kill them before they grow.
And so: And so
Read it in the news:
(I shot the Sole.) oh, lord!
(but I swear it was in self-defense.)
Where was da Tongan? (oo-oo-oh)
I say: I shot the Sole,
But I swear it was in self-defense. yeah! (oo-oh)
Freedom came my way one day
And I started out of town, yeah!
All of a sudden I saw Tama Samoa
comeing to shoot me down,
So I shot - I shot - I shot him down and I say:
If I am guilty I will pay.
(I shot the Sole,)
But I say (but I didn’t shoot da Tongan),
I didn’t shoot da Tongan babe (oh, no-oh), oh no!
(I shot the Sole.) I agree!
But I didn’t shoot da Tongan. oh! (oo-oo-ooh) yeah!
Reflexes had got the better of me
And what is to be must be:
Every day the bucket a-go a well,
One day the bottom a-go drop out,
One day the bottom a-go drop out.
I say:
I - I - I - I shot da Sole.
Lord, I didn’t shot da Tongan no. yeah!
I - I (shot the Sole) -
But I didn’t shoot da Tongan, yeah! so, yeah!
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