Step up, buddies and listen to my sing it to you right, but you might sing it wrong A song about a man they called Otto 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? Otto's dead and gone Otto Wood, why you run When the sheriff pulled out that 44
They spread the news as as they could The sheriff a warrant 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 done and gone Wood, why didn't you run When the sheriff out that 44 gun?
The second time they caught him was away out In a holdup game, he got through the breast brought him back and when he got well They him down in a dungeon cell
He was a man could not run For he totted a 44 gun He loved the and he hated the law And he just didn't take jaw
Otto, why didn't you done dead and gone Otto Wood, why you run the sheriff pulled out that 44 gun?
He out west and he rambled all around Till he met two in a southern town They said, "Otto, to the way But we've expecting you every day"
He out his gun and then he said "Make a crooked move and you both fall You better crank up your car and me out of town" But a few later he was graveyard bound
Otto, why didn't you Otto's dead and gone Wood, why didn't you run When the sheriff pulled out 44 gun?