No deputy???

[bagzi94]

I shot the sheriff, but I did not shoot no deputy.

I don't understand what he's trying to say. :roll:

 

[5jj]

I shot the sheriff, but I did not shoot no deputy.

I don't understand what he's trying to say. :roll:

He is probably trying to say that he did not shoot a deputy. The writer is suggesting, by the use of the double negative, that the speaker is uneducated.

 

[Raymott]

"I Shot the Sheriff" is a song written by Bob Marley, told from the point of view of a man who admits to having killed the local sheriff, but claims to be falsely accused of having killed the deputy sheriff.

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