Step up, and listen to my song I'll sing it to you right, but you might sing it A song about a man called Otto Wood I can't tell you all, but I wish I
He in a pawn shop, a rainy day And he had a quarrel with a clerk, they say He pulled out his pistol and struck him blows And is the way the story goes
Otto, why didn't you Otto's done dead and Wood, why didn't you run When the sheriff pulled out that 44
They spread the news as fast as they The sheriff a warrant on Otto Wood Jury said, in the second degree And the judge sentence to the penitentiary
put him in the pen, but it done no good 'Cause it hold 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 didn't you Otto's dead and gone Wood, why didn't you run When the sheriff out that 44 gun?
The second time they caught him was out west In a game, he got shot through the breast brought him back and when he got well They locked him in a dungeon cell
He was a man that not run For he totted a 44 gun He loved the women and he the law And he just take nobody's jaw
Otto, why didn't you done dead and gone Otto Wood, why you run the sheriff pulled out that 44 gun?
He rambled out and he rambled all around Till he met two in a southern town They said, "Otto, to the way But we've been you every day"
He out his gun and then he said "Make a crooked and you both fall dead You crank up your car and take me out of town" But a few minutes he was graveyard bound
Otto, why you run? done dead and gone Otto Wood, why you run When the pulled out that 44 gun?