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He pulled out his pistol and struck him fatal blows
This is the way the story goes
Otto, why didn't you run?
Otto's done, dead and gone
Otto, 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
The 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 to call Otto Wood
It wasn't very long till he slipped outside
Pulled a gun on the guard and said, take me for a ride
Otto, why didn't you run?
Otto's done, dead and gone
Otto, why didn't you run?
When the sheriff pulled out that .44 gun
The second time they caught him was a way out west
In a hold-up 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 toted a .44 gun
He loved the women and he hated the law
And it just didn't take nobody's jaw
Otto, why didn't you run?
Otto's done, dead and gone
Otto, why didn't you run?
When the sheriff pulled out that .44 gun?
.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
For 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, why didn't you run?
When the sheriff pulled out that .44 gun
.44 gun