Billy Strings – Otto Wood The Bandit (Guitar)

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Well step up, buddies, and listen to my song

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Sing it to you right, though you might sing it wrong,

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Song 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 stepped in a pawn shop a rainy day,

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

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Well he pulled out his pistol and he struck a fatal blow,

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This is the way the story goes.

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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 that 44 gun?

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Well they spread the news as fast as they could,

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Sheriff served a warrant on Otto Wood.

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Jury said murder in the second degree,

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And the judge passed the sentence to the penitentiary.

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Well they put him in the pen, but it done no good,

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Cause it wouldn't hold the man they call Otto Wood.

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Well it wasn't to long till he slipped outside,

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Pulled a gun on the guard, and said, "Take me for a ride."

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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 that 44 gun?

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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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Well they brought him back and when he got well,

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They locked him down in the dungeon cell.

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He was a man they would not run,

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He’s always sporting a 44 gun.

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Well he loved the women and he hated the law,

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Just wouldn't take nobody's jaw.

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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 that 44 gun?

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Well he rambled out west and he rambled all around,

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Till he met two sheriffs in a southern town.

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They said, "Otto, step this way,

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We’ve been expecting you every day."

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He pulled out his gun and then he said,

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Make a crooked move, and you both fall dead.

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

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But a few minutes later, he was graveyard bound.

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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 that 44 gun?

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