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"Big Iron" is a country ballad written and performed by Marty Robbins, originally released as an album track on Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs in September 1959
[Verse]
C Am
To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day
C Am
Hardly spoke to folks around him, didn't have too much to say
F C
No one dared to ask his business, no one dared to make a slip
C Am
For the stranger there among them had a big iron on his hip
F C
Big iron on his hip
[Verse]
C Am
It was early in the morning when he rode into the town
C Am
He came riding from the south side, slowly looking all around
F C
He's an outlaw loose and running, came the whisper from each lip
C Am
And he's here to do some business with the big iron on his hip
F C
Big iron on his hip
[Verse]
C Am
In this town, there lived an outlaw by the name of Texas Red
C Am
Many men had tried to take him and that many men were dead
F C
He was vicious and a killer though a youth of twenty-four
C Am
And the notches on his pistol numbered one and nineteen more
F C
One and nineteen more
[Verse]
C Am Am
Now the stranger started talking, made it plain to folks around
C Am
He was an Arizona Ranger, wouldn't be too long in town
F C
He came here to take an outlaw back alive or maybe dead
C Am
And he said it didn't matter, he was after Texas Red
F C
After Texas Red
[Verse]
C Am
The morning passed so quickly, it was time for them to meet
C . Am
It was twenty past eleven when they walked out in the street
F C
Folks were watching from their windows, everybody held their breath
C Am
They knew this handsome ranger was about to meet his death
F C
Was about to meet his death
[Verse]
C Am
There was forty feet between them when they stopped to make their play
C Am
And the swiftness of the ranger is still talked about today
F C
Texas Red had not cleared leather when a bullet fairly ripped
C Am
And the ranger's aim was deadly with the big iron on his hip
F C
The big iron on his hip
[Outro]
F C
Big iron, big iron
C
When he tried to match the ranger
Am
With the big iron on his hip
F C
The big iron on his hip
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