Big Iron Chords by Marty Robbins
- Key: C#m
- BPM: 115
- Capo: no capo
DOWNBEAT
BIG IRON CHORDS
[Start] [Verse] C#m G# C#m E C#m ■ ■ To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day E C#m Hardly spoke to folks around him didn't have too much to say A E No one dared to ask his business no one dared to make a slip C#m The stranger there among them had a big iron on his hip A E Big iron on his hip C#m It was early in the morning when he rode into the town E C#m He came riding from the south side slowly lookin' all around A E He's an outlaw loose and runnin' came a whisper from each lip C#m And he's here to do some business with a big iron on his hip [Chorus] A E Big iron on his hip C#m In this town there lived an outlaw by the name of Texas Red E C#m Many men had tried to take him and that many men were dead A E He was vicious and a killer though a youth of twenty four A And the notches on his pistol numbered one and nineteen more E One and nineteen more [Verse] C#m Now the stranger started talkin' made it plain to folks around E C#m Was an Arizona ranger wouldn't be too long in town A E He came here to take an outlaw back alive or maybe dead C#m And he said it didn't matter he was after Texas Red A E After Texas Red C#m Wasn't long before this story was relayed to Texas Red E C#m But the outlaw didn't worry men that tried before were dead A E Twenty men had tried to take him twenty men had made a slip C#m Twenty one would be the ranger with the big iron on his hip A Big iron on his hip E C#m E Now the morning passed so quickly it was time for them to meet C#m It was twenty past eleven when they walked out in the street A E Folks were watchin' from the windows E Every body held their breath C#m They knew this handsome ranger was about to meet his death A E About to meet his death E There was forty feet between them C#m When they stopped to make their play E C#m And the swiftness of the Ranger is still talked about today A E Texas Red had not cleared leather for a bullet fairly ripped C#m And the ranger's aim was deadly with the big iron on his hip A E Big iron on his hip [Chorus] C#m It was over in a moment and the folks had gathered 'round E C#m There before them lay the body of the outlaw on the ground A E ■ Oh he might have went on livin' but he made one fatal slip C#m A When he tried to match the ranger with the big iron on his hip E Big iron on his hip A E Big iron big iron C#m When he tried to match the ranger with the big iron on his hip A E B7 E C#m Big iron on his hip ■ ■ ■ [End]