Step up, buddies and listen to my I'll sing it to you right, but you might it wrong A song about a man 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 a clerk, they say He out his pistol and struck him fatal blows And this is the way the goes
Otto, why didn't you done dead and gone Otto Wood, why you run the sheriff pulled out that 44 gun?
They spread the news as as they could The sheriff served a warrant on Otto said, Murder in the second degree And the judge passed sentence to the
They put him in the pen, but it done no 'Cause it wouldn't a man they call Otto Wood It wasn't long till he slipped outside a gun on the guard, said, "Take me for a ride"
Otto, why didn't you Otto's dead 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 shot the breast They brought him back and he got well They locked him in a dungeon cell
He was a man could not run For he totted a 44 gun He loved the women and he the law And he just didn't take jaw
Otto, why didn't you done dead and gone Otto Wood, why you run When the sheriff pulled out 44 gun?
He out west and he rambled all around Till he met two sheriffs in a town said, "Otto, step to the way But we've been you every day"
He pulled out his gun and then he "Make a crooked move and you fall dead You better up your car and take me out of town" But a few minutes he was graveyard bound
Otto, why didn't you Otto's done and gone Wood, why didn't you run When the sheriff out that 44 gun?