Step up, and listen to my song I'll sing it to you right, but you sing it wrong A about a man they called Otto Wood I can't tell you all, but I I could
He stepped in a shop, a rainy day And he had a quarrel with a clerk, they say He pulled out his pistol and struck him fatal And is the way the story goes
Otto, why didn't you Otto's dead and gone Otto Wood, why you run When the sheriff pulled out 44 gun?
spread the news as fast as they could The sheriff served a on Otto Wood said, Murder in the second degree And the judge passed sentence to the
They put him in the pen, but it done no 'Cause it wouldn't hold a man they call Wood It very long till 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 pulled out that 44 gun?
The second time they him was away out west In a holdup game, he got shot through the They brought him and when he got well locked him down in a dungeon cell
He was a man could not run For he always a 44 gun He loved the women and he the law And he just take nobody's jaw
Otto, why didn't you Otto's done dead and Wood, why didn't you run When the pulled out that 44 gun?
He out west and he rambled all around Till he met two sheriffs in a town They said, "Otto, to the way But been expecting you every day"
He pulled out his gun and then he "Make a crooked move and you both fall You better up your car and take me out of town" But a few later he was graveyard bound
Otto, why you run? done dead and gone Otto Wood, why you run When the sheriff pulled out that 44