Step up, and listen to my song I'll sing it to you right, but you might it wrong A about a man they called Otto Wood I can't tell you all, but I I could
He stepped in a shop, a rainy day And then he had a quarrel with a clerk, say He out his pistol and struck him fatal blows And is the way the story goes
Otto, why didn't you Otto's dead and gone Wood, why didn't you run When the sheriff pulled out that 44
They spread the news as as they could The sheriff served a on Otto Wood Jury said, Murder in the second And the judge passed to the penitentiary
put him in the pen, but it done no good 'Cause it wouldn't a man they call Otto Wood It wasn't very long till he outside a gun on the guard, said, "Take me for a ride"
Otto, why you run? Otto's done and gone Otto Wood, why you run the sheriff pulled out that 44 gun?
The second time caught him was away out west In a holdup game, he got through the breast They brought him back and when he got locked him down in a dungeon cell
He was a man could not run For he totted a 44 gun He the women and he hated the law And he just didn't take jaw
Otto, why you run? Otto's dead and gone Otto Wood, why you run When the pulled out that 44 gun?
He rambled out west and he all around he met two sheriffs in a southern town They said, "Otto, to the way But been expecting you every day"
He pulled out his gun and then he "Make a crooked move and you both fall You better crank up car and take me out of town" But a few later he was graveyard bound
Otto, why didn't you Otto's done dead and Wood, why didn't you run When the sheriff pulled out that 44