Step up, and listen to my song I'll 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 pawn shop, a day And he had a quarrel with a clerk, they say He pulled out his pistol and struck him blows And this is the way the story
Otto, why you run? Otto's done and gone Wood, why didn't you run When the sheriff pulled out that 44
They the news as fast as they could The sheriff served a on Otto Wood Jury said, in the second degree And the judge passed to the penitentiary
They put him in the pen, but it done no 'Cause it hold a man they call Otto 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 Otto Wood, why you run When the pulled 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 They locked him down in a dungeon
He was a man that not run For he totted a 44 gun He the women and he hated the law And he just didn't nobody's jaw
Otto, why didn't you Otto's done and gone Wood, why didn't you run When the sheriff pulled out that 44
He rambled out west and he rambled all he met two sheriffs in a southern town They said, "Otto, to the way But we've expecting you every day"
He pulled out his gun and then he "Make a crooked and you both fall dead You crank up your car and take me out of town" But a few minutes later he was graveyard
Otto, why didn't you Otto's dead and gone Wood, why didn't you run When the pulled out that 44 gun?