I Shot the Sheriff

I Shot the Sheriff "is a song by the reggae group Bob Marley & The Wailers.

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[hide] *1 Bob Marley & The Wailers
 * 2 Eric Clapton
 * 3 Warren G
 * 4 Other covers

==Bob Marley & The Wailers[ Edit] == I shot the sheriff appeared as first on the fourth album Burnin' by Bob Marley & The Wailers in 1973. The song was released as a single but was not hit in Netherlands and Flanders.

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 * align="center" colspan="3" len="36" style="vertical-align:top;"|I Shot the Sheriff
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 * align="center" colspan="3" len="203" style="vertical-align:top;"|Single from:
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 * align="center" colspan="3" len="234" style="vertical-align:top;"|From the album:
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 * lang="en" len="11" style="vertical-align:top;font-weight:bold;"|Released
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 * lang="en" len="12" style="vertical-align:top;font-weight:bold;"|Type of carrier
 * colspan="2" len="186" style="vertical-align:top;"|Vinyl single
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 * lang="en" len="6" style="vertical-align:top;font-weight:bold;"|Recording
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 * len="215" style="vertical-align:top;font-weight:bold;"|Genre
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 * lang="en" len="4" style="vertical-align:top;font-weight:bold;"|Duration
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 * colspan="2" len="168" style="vertical-align:top;"|Tom Dowd
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 * align="center" colspan="3" len="34" style="vertical-align:top;"|Position (s) in the charts
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 * 1) 1 (United States, Canada, New Zealand)
 * 2) 3 (Norway)
 * 3) 5 (Dutch Single Top 100, Dutch Top 40)
 * 4) 9 (United Kingdom)
 * 5) 20 (Austria)
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 * align="center" colspan="3" len="187" style="vertical-align:top;"|Eric Clapton
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 * align="center" colspan="3" len="227" style="vertical-align:top;"|Order on 461 Ocean Boulevard
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==Eric Clapton[ Edit] == Eric Clapton covered the song for his album 461 Ocean Boulevard, this song had more success than Marley version. The song reached the number 1 position in the u.s.Billboard Hot 100. It is also Claptons only number 1-listing in the United States. ===Chart Positions[ Edit] === ====Dutch Top 40[ Edit] ==== ====Dutch Single Top 100<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== ===Radio 2 Top 2000<span class="mw-editsection" len="341" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ===
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==Warren G<span class="mw-editsection" len="333" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">In 1997, a cover of the song Warren G . It appeared on his second album Take a look over your shoulder. The single came in the Dutch Single Top 100 to number 63 while the Dutch Top 40 not out and got stuck in the Tipparade in fifth place. ===Chart Positions<span class="mw-editsection" len="336" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ====Dutch Single Top 100<span class="mw-editsection" len="351" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ====

==Other covers<span class="mw-editsection" len="340" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p lang="en" len="55" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Some other artists who have covered the song:


 * Voodoo Glow Skulls
 * Tom Morello
 * Just D
 * Inner Circle
 * Susan Callaghan (during the voice of Flanders 2012)