Step up, and listen to my song I'll sing it to you right, but you sing it wrong A song about a man they called Wood I tell you all, but I wish I could
He in a pawn shop, a rainy day And then he had a with a clerk, they say He pulled out his pistol and struck him blows And this is the way the story
Otto, why didn't you Otto's done dead and Otto Wood, why you run When the sheriff out that 44 gun?
They spread the news as fast as could The sheriff served a warrant on Otto Jury said, Murder in the second And the judge passed to the penitentiary
They put him in the pen, but it no good 'Cause it wouldn't hold a man call Otto Wood It wasn't very long he slipped outside a gun on the guard, said, "Take me for a ride"
Otto, why didn't you done dead and gone Otto Wood, why you run When the sheriff out that 44 gun?
The second time they caught him was away out 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 that not run For he always a 44 gun He loved the and he hated the law And he didn't take nobody's jaw
Otto, why didn't you Otto's done dead and Otto Wood, why you run When the sheriff pulled out 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 we've been expecting you day"
He pulled out his gun and he said "Make a crooked move and you fall dead You better crank up your car and me out of town" But a few minutes later he was graveyard
Otto, why you run? Otto's done dead and Otto Wood, why you run When the sheriff out that 44 gun?