Step up, and listen to my song sing it to you right, but you might sing it wrong A about a man they 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 quarrel with a clerk, say He pulled out his and struck him fatal blows And is the way the story goes
Otto, why you run? 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 served a warrant on Otto Wood Jury said, Murder in the degree And the judge sentence to the penitentiary
put him in the pen, but it done no good 'Cause it wouldn't hold a man they Otto Wood It very long till he slipped outside a gun on the guard, said, "Take me for a ride"
Otto, why you run? Otto's dead and gone Wood, why didn't you run When the pulled out that 44 gun?
The second time they him was away out west In a game, he got shot through the breast They brought him back and he got well They locked him down in a dungeon
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 done dead and Wood, why didn't you run When the pulled out that 44 gun?
He out west and he rambled all around Till he met two sheriffs in a southern They said, "Otto, to the way But been expecting you every day"
He out his gun and then he said "Make a move 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 didn't you done dead and gone Otto Wood, why you run When the sheriff out that 44 gun?