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 can't you all, but I wish I could
He stepped in a shop, a rainy day And then he had a with a clerk, they say He pulled out his pistol and struck him fatal And is the way the story goes
Otto, why you run? Otto's done and gone Wood, why didn't you run When the sheriff out that 44 gun?
spread the news as fast as they could The served a warrant on Otto Wood Jury said, Murder in the second And the judge passed sentence to the
put him in the pen, but it done 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 you run? Otto's dead and gone Otto Wood, why you run When the sheriff pulled out 44 gun?
The second they caught him was away out west In a holdup game, he got through the breast They brought him and when he got well They locked him down in a cell
He was a man that not run For he always a 44 gun He loved the women and he the law And he just didn't nobody's jaw
Otto, why didn't you done 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 They said, "Otto, to the way But we've been expecting you day"
He out his gun and then he said "Make a crooked move and you fall dead You better up your car and take me out of town" But a few later he was graveyard bound
Otto, why didn't you Otto's done dead and Wood, why didn't you run When the sheriff pulled out 44 gun?