Big Iron Chords by Marty Robbins

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[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 ■  ■ ■  


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