Step up, buddies, and listen to my song
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I'll sing it to you right, but you may sing it wrong,
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All about a man named Otto Wood,
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I can't tell you all, but I wish I could.
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He walked in a pawn shop a rainy day,
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And with the clerk he had a quarrel, they say.
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Pulled out his pistol and he struck him a blow,
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And this is the way the story goes.
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They spread the news as fast as they could,
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The sheriff served a warrant on Otto Wood.
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The jury said murder in the second degree,
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And the judge passed the sentence to the peniteniary.
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CHORUS: Otto, why didn't you run?
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Otto's done dead and gone.
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Otto Wood, why didn't you run
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When the sheriff pulled out his 44 gun?
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They put him in the pen, but it done no good,
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It wouldn't hold the man they call Otto Wood.
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It wasn't very long till he slipped outside,
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Drawed a gun on the guard, said, "Take me for a ride."
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Second time they caught him was away out west,
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In the holdup game, he got shot through the breast.
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They brought him back and when he got well,
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They locked him down in a dungeon cell.
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He was a man they could not run,
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He always carried a 44 gun.
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He loved the women and he hated the law,
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And he just wouldn't take nobody's jaw.
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He rambled out west and he rambled all around,
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He met the sheriff in a southern town.
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And the sheriff says, "Otto, step this way,
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'Cause I've been expecting you every day."
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He pulled out his gun and then he said,
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" If you make a crooked move, you both fall dead.
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Crank up your car and take me out of town,"
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And a few minutes later, he was graveyard bound.
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Otto Wood the Bandit
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Doc Watson |