Step up, buddies and to my song 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 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 this is the way the goes
Otto, why you run? Otto's done dead and Wood, why didn't you run When the sheriff out that 44 gun?
spread the news as fast as they could The sheriff served a warrant on Wood Jury said, Murder in the second And the judge passed to the penitentiary
They put him in the pen, but it done no 'Cause it wouldn't hold a man they call Otto It wasn't very long he slipped outside a gun on the guard, said, "Take me for a ride"
Otto, why didn't you Otto's done 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 when he got They locked him in a dungeon cell
He was a man that not run For he totted a 44 gun He loved the and he hated the law And he just didn't nobody's jaw
Otto, why didn't you Otto's dead and gone Otto Wood, why you run When the sheriff out that 44 gun?
He out west and he rambled all around he met two sheriffs in a southern town They said, "Otto, to the way But we've been expecting you day"
He pulled out his gun and then he "Make a crooked move and you both dead You better crank up car and take me out of town" But a few minutes later he was bound
Otto, why you run? Otto's done and gone Otto Wood, why you run When the sheriff pulled out 44 gun?