Otto Wood The Bandit Lyrics - The Vanguard Years - Doc Watson

Step up, buddies and listen to my song 

I'll sing it to you right, but you might sing it wrong 

A song about a man they called Otto Wood 

I can't tell you all, but I wish I could 

He stepped in a pawn shop, a rainy day 

And then he had a quarrel with a clerk, they say 

He pulled out his pistol and struck him fatal blows 

And this is the way the story goes 

Otto, why didn't you run? 

Otto's done dead and gone 

Otto Wood, why didn't you run 

When the sheriff pulled out that 44 gun? 

They spread the news as fast as they could 

The sheriff served a warrant on Otto Wood 

Jury said, "Murder in the second degree" 

And the judge passed sentence to the penitentiary 

They put him in the pen, but it done no good 

'Cause it wouldn't hold a man they call Otto Wood 

It wasn't very long till he slipped outside 

Drawed a gun on the guard, said, "Take me for a ride" 

Otto, why didn't you run? 

Otto's done dead and gone 

Otto Wood, why didn't you run 

When the sheriff pulled out that 44 gun? 

The second time they caught him was away out west 

In a holdup game, he got shot through the breast 

They brought him back and when he got well 

They locked him down in a dungeon cell 

He was a man that could not run 

For he always totted a 44 gun 

He loved the women and he hated the law 

And he just didn't take nobody's jaw 

Otto, why didn't you run? 

Otto's done dead and gone 

Otto Wood, why didn't you run 

When the sheriff pulled out that 44 gun? 

He rambled out west and he rambled all around 

Till he met two sheriffs in a southern town 

They said, "Otto, step to the way 

But we've been expecting you every day" 

He pulled out his gun and then he said 

"Make a crooked move and you both fall dead 

You better crank up your car and take me out of town" 

But a few minutes later he was graveyard bound 

Otto, why didn't you run? 

Otto's done dead and gone 

Otto Wood, why didn't you run 

When the sheriff pulled out that 44 gun? 

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