Big Iron Chords by Marty Robbins

[Start]

[Verse]
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
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The stranger there among them had a big iron on his hip
         E         
Big iron on his hip
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It was early in the morning when he rode into the town
   E                                                  B      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
                                               C#m          
And the notches on his pistol numbered one and nineteen more
        E            
One and nineteen more


[Verse]
                                      G#7                      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


[Chorus]
      E        
After Texas Red
                                             C#m      
Wasn't long before this story was relayed to Texas Red
E                                                 F#m       C#m
But the outlaw didn't worry men that tried before were dead ■  


[Verse]
E          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    
Now ■ the morning passed so quickly it was time for them to meet
              E                                   C#m       
It was twenty past eleven when they walked out in the street
A                                   
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


[Chorus]
      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
                            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    
When he tried to match the ranger with the big iron on his hip
            A   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   C#m
Big iron on his hip ■  


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