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Readers' 20 Worst Lyrics Ever: No. 20

We showed you ours -- now you're showing us yours. Since we posted our 20 Worst Lyrics of All Time, you've left us 4000+ comments -- not all of which say, "You suck!" So, for the sequel, here are the lyrics you most love to mock. Let's count them down ... and, by all means, leave yourselves some comments.


"I shot the sheriff

But I didn't shoot no deputy"

--Bob Marley's 'I Shot the Sheriff'

Who gives a crap, you're still going to jail!!! --Lisa, Long Island, N.Y.


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dan

what the ****

May 17 2011 at 8:08 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
firesoforion

what?!?!?!?!?! That's a great lyric ...

January 15 2011 at 11:47 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
JOHN SPARKS

How could we ever forget the neil diamond song? Song sung blue. song sung blue, everybody knows one. song sung blue,every garden grows one. I guess if songs grew in gardens we would all have a few of our own.

February 08 2010 at 7:58 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Man

but I swear it was in self-defense... the above line is taken out of context idiot

August 05 2009 at 6:53 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
perfect 28

Jason Coigne and Gabi New Hamshire (Mostly Jason Coigne),
Bob Marley is a legend you can't just say you hate all his songs I'm pretty sure that you haven't listened to all of them. I know people have their own preferences in music;but a whole genre? I don't care how old you are I'm 15 and I think his songs are still good. Plus I'm DEFINATELY sure that you haven't listened to the ENTIRE reggae genre to say that it sucks. So check yourself before you say something stupid like that again.
Thank you

lol i didnt mean for it to look like a letter just got carried away on an angry rant no offense to the intended.

July 21 2009 at 8:57 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
rain

The point of this song, which I haven't seen mentioned in the comments yet, is that the sheriff is the one who shot the deputy. So basically, yeah, he shot the sheriff, but it was in self defense (he swears.)

July 09 2009 at 5:44 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mickey

PFFFFTTTTTT!

January 17 2009 at 11:27 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
shadowsofblade

Protip: The sheriff was an abusive racist white man who put Jamaicans down. Generally a crook. In Western convention, in lands that were colonized or occupied by foreign empires/nations, the sheriff was usually a white man, while the deputy was among the local population and served only as a figurehead. Lyric makes perfect sense.

January 16 2009 at 8:25 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Nick

Good God...it is just common sense not to hate on Bob. In fact, being negative about Bob Marley is pretty ironic. But such things will piss off a lot of...er...people belonging to a certain interest group. And there's a lot of us. Lisa...you're the worst kind of person.

December 31 2008 at 8:43 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
regnr8d1

You see the thing is he shot the sheriff the bullet bounced off his badge and hit the deputy.

So "I shot the sheriff But I didn't shoot no deputy" is indeed a true statement.

There you go a little CSI for ya.

December 30 2008 at 10:29 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply