Step up, buddies and listen to my I'll sing it to you right, but you might sing it A song about a man called Otto Wood I can't 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 pistol and struck him blows And this is the way the story
Otto, why you run? Otto's dead and gone Otto Wood, why you run When the sheriff pulled out that 44
They spread the news as fast as could The sheriff served a warrant on Otto Jury said, Murder in the second And the passed sentence to the penitentiary
They put him in the pen, but it done no 'Cause it wouldn't hold a man call Otto Wood It very long till he slipped outside a gun on the guard, said, "Take me for a ride"
Otto, why you run? Otto's done and gone Otto Wood, why you run When the pulled out that 44 gun?
The time they caught him was away out west In a holdup game, he got shot the breast brought him back and when he got well They locked him down in a cell
He was a man could not run For he always a 44 gun He loved the and he hated the law And he just didn't nobody's jaw
Otto, why you run? Otto's dead and gone Otto Wood, why you run When the sheriff out that 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 been expecting you every day"
He pulled out his gun and he said "Make a crooked and you both fall dead You better crank up car and take me out of town" But a few minutes later he was bound
Otto, why you run? Otto's dead and gone Otto Wood, why you run When the pulled out that 44 gun?