Step up, buddies and to my song I'll sing it to you right, but you sing it wrong A song about a man they called Wood I tell you all, but I wish I could
He in a pawn shop, a rainy day And then he had a with a clerk, they say He pulled out his pistol and struck him blows And this is the way the story
Otto, why you run? done dead and gone Otto Wood, why you run When the sheriff out that 44 gun?
They the news as fast as they could The sheriff served a warrant on Wood Jury said, Murder in the degree And the judge sentence to the penitentiary
They put him in the pen, but it no good 'Cause it hold a man they call Otto Wood It wasn't very till he slipped outside a gun on the guard, said, "Take me for a ride"
Otto, why you run? done dead and gone Otto Wood, why you run When the sheriff pulled out that 44
The time they caught him was away out west In a holdup game, he got shot the breast They brought him back and he got well They 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 nobody's jaw
Otto, why didn't you Otto's done dead and Otto Wood, why you run When the pulled out that 44 gun?
He rambled out and he rambled all around Till he met two sheriffs in a town said, "Otto, step to the way But we've been expecting you day"
He out his gun and then he said "Make a crooked and you both fall dead You better crank up your car and me out of town" But a few minutes later he was bound
Otto, why you run? Otto's done and gone Wood, why didn't you run When the sheriff pulled out that 44