Doc Watson - Otto Wood the Bandit Lyrics

Lyrics Otto Wood the Bandit - 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?



Writer(s): Walter B. Smith


Doc Watson - The Vanguard Years
Album The Vanguard Years
date of release
21-11-1995

1 Rambling Hobo
2 Train That Carried My Girl from Town (Live)
3 The Coo Coo
4 Reuben's Train
5 Hick's Farewell
6 Grandfather's Clock
7 Beaumont Rag
8 Farewell Blues
9 Footprints In the Snow
10 Intoxicated Rat
11 Talk About Suffering
12 Omie Wise
13 Country Blues
14 Black Mountain Rag
15 Doc's Guitar
16 Deep River Blues
17 Muskrat
18 Dream of The Miner's Child
19 Rising Sun Blues
20 Otto Wood the Bandit
21 Little Sadie
22 Windy and Warm
23 Tennessee Stud
24 Blue Railroad Train
25 Down In the Valley to Pray
26 Dill Pickle Rag
27 The F.F.V.
28 Childhood Play
29 Streamline Cannonball
30 Old Camp Meeting Time
31 I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes
32 The Girl In the Blue Velvet Band
33 New River Train
34 Rank Stranger
35 Corrina Corrina
36 What Does the Deep Sea Say
37 There's More Pretty Girls Than One
38 Way Downtown
39 Brown's Ferry Blues
40 Spike Driver Blues (Live)
41 Roll On Buddy
42 I Am a Pilgrim
43 Wabash Cannon Ball
44 Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms
45 The Lawson Family Murder
46 The Cuckoo
47 Alabama Bound
48 Bye Bye Bluebells (Live)
49 Kinfolks In Carolina (Live)
50 San Antonio Rose (Live)
51 Blow Your Whistle Freight Train (Live)
52 Cannonball Rag (Live)
53 I Am a Pilgrim (Live)
54 Arrangement Blues (Live)
55 I Got a Pig At Home In a Pen (Live)
56 My Rough and Rowdy Ways (Live)
57 Deep River Blues (Live)
58 Banks of the Ohio (Live)
59 A-Roving On a Winter's Night (Live)
60 Southbound (Live)
61 Memphis Blues (Live)
62 Salt Creek / Bill Cheatham (Live)
63 Brown's Ferry Blues (Live)
64 Windy and Warm (Live)




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