Similarly "Clapton's" I shot the sheriff was originally a Bob Marley song
In fact, being the racist twat he is, Clapton changed a lyric from "I didn't shoot no deputy" to "I didn't shoot the deputy". While only slightly different Clapton's version implies that those roles are held by two people whereas Marley's implies it's the same person. That's because Marley's was a protest song saying that the police in his community were sent by colonizers and had no interest in protecting their community. Thus his claim that he did shoot a sheriff (a position he has no respect for) but he did not shoot a deputy (someone the community authorizes to enforce their own rules). That distinction was kind of the entire point of the song and Clapton changed it, presumably due to the aforementioned fact that he is a racist twat