Step up, buddies and listen to my sing it to you right, but you might sing it wrong A song about a man called Otto Wood I can't tell you all, but I wish I
He stepped in a shop, a rainy day And then he had a with a clerk, they say He pulled out his pistol and him fatal blows And is the way the story goes
Otto, why didn't you done dead and gone Otto Wood, why you run When the pulled out that 44 gun?
spread the news as fast as they could The sheriff served a on Otto Wood Jury said, in the second degree And the judge passed 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 he slipped outside a gun on the guard, said, "Take me for a ride"
Otto, why you run? Otto's done dead and Otto Wood, why you run When the sheriff out that 44 gun?
The second time they him was away out west In a holdup game, he got shot through the They brought him back and he got well locked him down in a dungeon cell
He was a man that 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 done dead and Otto Wood, why you run When the sheriff pulled out 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 expecting 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 later he was graveyard bound
Otto, why you run? done dead and gone Otto Wood, why you run When the sheriff pulled out 44 gun?