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Who Shot the Deputy?

I was watching a film recently where a character played by Bob Hoskins (an excellent actor, one of my favs) was lamenting how his elderly mother was now listening to reggae music all night and day. She was into so much that she asked the question "who shot the deputy?" We all know who shot the sheriff, but does anybody know the answer to the old lady's question.
onhwy61
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geoffkait
14,147 posts
 
We know someone killed the deputy from the second stanza:

All around in my hometown
They're tryin' to track me down, yeah
They say they want to bring me in guilty
For the killing of a deputy, for the life of a deputy
But I say, oh, now, now...
bufus
148 posts
 
oh yeah, that's right, i was trying to think of that but my brain wouldn't work this morning
twl
3,251 posts
 
That's right. So the deputy did get shot. Perhaps the Sheriff shot the deputy, and tried to frame Eric Clapton for it. Then Eric Clapton shot the Sheriff for framing him for the deputy's murder. Clapton still had to take the rap anyway, but he felt better that he at least killed that lousy SOB Sheriff that tried to frame him for killing the deputy. Right?
cdelplato
110 posts
 
Martha Stewart. The deputy was investigating her illegal trading of Jamaican spice futures.

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winoguy17
592 posts
 
It was all a vast right wing conspiracy...
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