Step up, and listen to my song I'll sing it to you right, but you might sing it A song about a man called Otto Wood I tell you all, but I wish I could
He stepped in a shop, a rainy day And then he had a quarrel with a clerk, 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 sheriff pulled out that 44
They spread the news as fast as they 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 wouldn't hold a man they call Wood It wasn't 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 they caught 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 could not run For he always a 44 gun He loved the women and he the law And he didn't take nobody's jaw
Otto, why you run? Otto's dead and gone Otto Wood, why you run When the sheriff pulled out 44 gun?
He rambled out west and he all around Till he met two in a southern town said, "Otto, step to the way But we've been expecting you day"
He pulled out his gun and he said "Make a crooked move and you both fall You better crank up your car and me out of town" But a few minutes later he was bound
Otto, why you run? done dead and gone Otto Wood, why you run the sheriff pulled out that 44 gun?