Step up, buddies and to my song I'll sing it to you right, but you might it wrong A song about a man they called Wood I can't you all, but I wish 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 him fatal blows And this is the way the story
Otto, why you run? Otto's dead and gone Otto Wood, why you run When the pulled out that 44 gun?
They the news as fast as they could The sheriff served a warrant on Otto said, Murder in the second degree 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 till he slipped 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 the sheriff pulled out that 44 gun?
The second time they him was away out west In a game, he got shot through the breast They him back 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 take nobody's jaw
Otto, why you run? done dead and gone Otto Wood, why you run When the sheriff out that 44 gun?
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 expecting you every day"
He pulled out his gun and he said "Make a move and you both fall dead You better crank up car and take me out of town" But a few minutes he was graveyard bound
Otto, why didn't you done dead and gone Otto Wood, why you run When the sheriff pulled out 44 gun?