Big Iron Chords by Marty Robbins

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[Verse]
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■   To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day
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Hardly spoke to folks around him didn't have too much to say
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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
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Big iron on his hip
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It was early in the morning when he rode into the town
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He came riding from the south side slowly lookin' all around
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He's an outlaw loose and runnin' came a whisper from each lip
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And he's here to do some business with a big iron on his hip


[Chorus]
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Big iron on his hip
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In this town there lived an outlaw by the name of Texas Red
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■   Many men had tried to take him and that many men were dead
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He was vicious and a killer though a youth of twenty four
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And the notches on his pistol numbered one and nineteen more
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■ One and nineteen more


[Verse]
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Now the stranger started talkin' made it plain to folks around ■  
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Was an Arizona ranger wouldn't be too long in town
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He came here to take an outlaw back alive or maybe dead
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And he said it didn't matter he was after Texas Red


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


[Verse]
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Twenty men had tried to take him twenty men had made a slip
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Twenty one would be the ranger with the big iron on his hip
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Big iron on his hip
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Now ■ the morning passed so quickly it was time for them to meet ■  
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It was twenty past eleven when they walked out in the street
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Folks were watchin' from the windows
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Every body held their breath
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They knew this handsome ranger was about to meet his death
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About to meet his death


[Chorus]
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There was forty feet between them
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When they stopped to make their play
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And the swiftness of the Ranger is still talked about today
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Texas Red had not cleared leather for a bullet fairly ripped
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And the ranger's aim was deadly with the big iron on his hip
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Big iron on his hip
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It was over in a moment and the folks had gathered 'round
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There before them lay the body of the outlaw on the ground
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Oh he might have went on livin' but he made one fatal slip
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When he tried to match the ranger with the big iron on his hip
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Big iron on his hip
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Big iron big iron
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When he tried to match the ranger with the big iron on his hip


[Outro]
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Big iron on his hip ■  ■  


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