Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Otto Wood The Bandit, artist - Doc Watson. Album song Doc Watson & Son, in the genre Музыка мира
Date of issue: 31.12.1996
Record label: Vanguard
Song language: English
Otto Wood The Bandit |
Step up, buddies, and listen to my song |
I’ll sing it to you right, but you may sing it wrong |
All about a man named Otto Wood |
I can’t tell you all, but I wish I could |
He walked in a pawn shop a rainy day |
And with the clerk he had a quarrel, they say |
Pulled out his pistol and he struck him a blow |
And this is the way the story goes |
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 the sentence to the peniteniary |
Otto, why didn’t you run? |
Otto’s done dead and gone |
Otto Wood, why didn’t you run |
When the sheriff pulled out his 44 gun? |
They put him in the pen, but it done no good |
It wouldn’t hold the 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.» |
Second time they caught him was away out west |
In the 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 they could not run |
He always carried a 44 gun |
He loved the women and he hated the law |
And he just wouldn’t take nobody’s jaw |
He rambled out west and he rambled all around |
He met the sheriff in a southern town |
And the sheriff says, «Otto, step this way |
'Cause I’ve been expecting you every day.» |
He pulled out his gun and then he said |
«If you make a crooked move, you both fall dead |
Crank up your car and take me out of town.» |
And a few minutes later, he was graveyard bound |