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.
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Read my lips, You wrong doers will not get away with shooting the deputy! As for that incident in my past when I shot a deputy, well that was a youthful indiscretion. (I was only 44)
According to the recent Marley biography "So Much Things To Say", the deputy was metaphorical.  You can kill the sheriff, but nothing will change because there will always be a deputy.
Everytime I plant a seed he say kill it before it grow
Apparently that line had something to do with one of Bob's girlfriends not becoming pregnant because she was using contraceptives.

It is not relevant in the song. Someone did, but Sheriff John Brown had it out for the protagonist and tried to frame him with the shooting. He didn't like the the protagonist was pro marijuana. The protagonist shot the Sharif in self defence.
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