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 Otto I tell you all, but I wish I could
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? done dead and gone Otto Wood, why you run the sheriff pulled out that 44 gun?
They spread the news as fast as they The sheriff served a warrant on 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 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 Otto's done dead and Otto Wood, why you run When the sheriff out that 44 gun?
The second time they caught him was out west In a holdup game, he got through the breast They him back and when he got well They locked him down in a cell
He was a man could not run For he totted a 44 gun He the women and he hated the law And he just take nobody's jaw
Otto, why didn't you Otto's dead and gone Otto Wood, why you run When the sheriff pulled out that 44
He rambled out and he rambled all around Till he met two sheriffs in a town said, "Otto, step 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 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 sheriff pulled out that 44