Step up, buddies and to my song sing it to you right, but you might sing it wrong A about 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 a clerk, they say He out his pistol and struck him fatal blows And this is the way the goes
Otto, why you run? Otto's dead and gone Wood, why didn't you run When the sheriff out that 44 gun?
They spread the news as fast as they The sheriff served a warrant on Otto Jury said, Murder in the degree And the passed sentence 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 very long till he 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 pulled out that 44 gun?
The second time they caught him was out west In a game, he got shot through the breast They brought him back and he got well They locked him in a dungeon 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 done and gone Wood, why didn't you run When the sheriff pulled out 44 gun?
He rambled out west and he all around Till he met two sheriffs in a town They said, "Otto, to the way But been expecting you every day"
He out his gun and then he said "Make a crooked and you both 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 dead and gone Otto Wood, why you run When the sheriff out that 44 gun?