Step up, buddies and to my song I'll it to you right, but you might sing it wrong A song a man they called Otto Wood I can't tell you all, but I wish I
He in a pawn shop, a rainy day And then he had a quarrel with a clerk, say He pulled out his pistol and him fatal blows And this is the way the story
Otto, why didn't you done dead and gone Otto Wood, why you run When the sheriff pulled out that 44
spread the news as fast as they could The sheriff served a warrant on Otto Jury said, Murder in the degree And the judge sentence to the penitentiary
put him in the pen, but it done no good '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 dead and gone Wood, why didn't you run When the sheriff pulled out 44 gun?
The second time caught him was away out west In a game, he got shot through the breast They brought him and when he got well They locked him down in a dungeon
He was a man could not run For he totted a 44 gun He loved the women and he the law And he just take nobody's jaw
Otto, why didn't you Otto's done dead and Otto Wood, why you run When the sheriff out that 44 gun?
He out west and he rambled all around Till he met two in a southern town said, "Otto, step to the way But we've expecting you every day"
He pulled out his gun and then he "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 didn't you Otto's done dead and Wood, why didn't you run When the sheriff out that 44 gun?