Step up, buddies and to my song I'll sing it to you right, but you might it wrong A song about a man they called Otto I tell you all, but I wish I could
He stepped in a pawn shop, a day And then he had a with a clerk, they say He pulled out his pistol and struck him fatal And this is the way the goes
Otto, why you run? Otto's done and gone Wood, why didn't you run When the pulled out that 44 gun?
They spread the news as fast as they The served a warrant on Otto Wood Jury said, Murder in the second And the judge sentence to the penitentiary
They put him in the pen, but it done no 'Cause it wouldn't hold a man they call Wood It wasn't very long till he outside a gun on the guard, said, "Take me for a ride"
Otto, why didn't you Otto's done and gone Wood, why didn't you run When the pulled out that 44 gun?
The time they caught him was away out west In a holdup game, he got through the breast They brought him back and when he got locked him down 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 didn't take nobody's jaw
Otto, why you run? Otto's dead and gone Wood, why didn't you run When the sheriff out that 44 gun?
He rambled out west and he all around Till he met two sheriffs in a town They said, "Otto, to the way But we've been expecting you day"
He pulled out his gun and he said "Make a crooked and you both fall dead You better crank up your car and me out of town" But a few later he was graveyard bound
Otto, why didn't you done dead and gone Otto Wood, why you run When the pulled out that 44 gun?