Step up, and listen 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 stepped in a pawn shop, a day And he had a quarrel with a clerk, they say He out his pistol and struck him fatal blows And this is the way the goes
Otto, why didn't you Otto's done and gone Wood, why didn't you run When the sheriff pulled out 44 gun?
spread the news as fast as they could The sheriff served a warrant on Wood said, Murder in the second degree And the judge sentence to the penitentiary
put him in the pen, but it done no good 'Cause it wouldn't hold a man they call Wood It wasn't very long till he outside a gun on the guard, said, "Take me for a ride"
Otto, why you run? Otto's done dead and Otto Wood, why you run When the sheriff out that 44 gun?
The time they caught him was away out west In a game, he got shot through the breast They brought him back and he got well They him down in a dungeon cell
He was a man that not run For he always a 44 gun He loved the and he hated the law And he just didn't take 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 he met two sheriffs in a southern town They said, "Otto, to the way But we've been expecting you day"
He pulled out his gun and he said "Make a crooked move and you both fall You better crank up car and take me out of town" But a few later he was graveyard bound
Otto, why you run? Otto's dead and gone Wood, why didn't you run When the pulled out that 44 gun?