https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=l_Glm68k41w

[Intro]

 

[Verse 1]
             
To the town of

              
 Agua Fria rod

    
e a stranger o

ne fine day
             
Hardly spoke t

              
o folks around

              
 him didn't ha

              
ve too much to

 
 say
             
No one dared t

              
o ask his busi

            
ness no one da

red to make a 

slip
              
for the strang

              
er there among

              
st them had a 


big iron on hi

s hip
             
Big iron on hi

  
s hip

[Verse 2]
             
It was early i

              
n the morning 

        
when he rode i

nto the town
             
He came riding

              
 from the sout

              
h side slowly 

              
lookin' all ar

 
ound
             
He's an outlaw

              
 loose and run

              
ning came the 


whisper from e

ach lip
              
And he's here 

              
to do some bus

              
iness with the


 big iron on h

is hip
             
The big iron o

  
n his hip

[Verse 3]
             
In this town t

              
here lived an 

              
outlaw by the 


name of Texas 

Red
             
Many men had t

              
ried to take h

              
im and that ma

            
ny men were de

ad
             
He was vicious

              
 and a killer 

            
though a youth

 of twenty fou

r
              
And the notche

              
s on his pisto

           
l numbered one

 an nineteen m

ore
             
One and ninete

   
en more

[Verse 4]
             
Now the strang

              
er started tal

             
king made it p


lain to folks 

around
             
Was an Arizona

              
 ranger wouldn

              
't be too long

    
 in town
             
He came here t

              
o take an outl

        
aw back alive 

or maybe dead
              
And he said it

              
 didn't matter

        
 he was after 

Texas Red
           
After Texas Re

d

[Verse 5]
             
Wasn't long be

              
fore the story

    
 was relayed t

o Texas Red
             
But the outlaw

              
 didn't worry 

              
men that tried

             
 before were d


ead
             
Twenty men had

              
 tried to take

             
 him, twenty m

en had made a 

slip
              
Twenty one wou

              
ld be the rang

            
er with the bi

g iron on his 

hip
             
Big iron on hi

  
s hip

[Verse 6]
             
Well,the morni

              
ng passed so q

              
uickly it was 


time for them 

to meet
             
It was twenty 

              
past eleven wh

              
en they walked

            
 out in the st

reet
             
Folks were wat

              
ching from the

              
ir windows eve

  
ry-body held t

heir breath
              
They knew this

              
 handsome rang

        
er was about t

o meet his dea

th
             
About to meet 

    
his death

[Verse 7]
             
There was fort

              
y feet between

              
 them when the

  
y stopped to m

ake their play
             
And the swiftn

              
ess of the ran

              
ger is still t

             
alked about to


-day
             
Texas Red had 

              
not cleared le

            
ather for a bu

llet fairly ri

pped
              
And the ranger

              
s aim was dead

            
ly with the bi

g iron on his 

hip
             
The big iron o

      
n his hip

[Verse 8]
             
It was over in

              
 a moment and 

    
the folks had 

gathered round
             
There before t

              
hem lay the bo

              
dy of the outl

          
aw on the grou

nd
             
Oh he might ha

              
ve gone on liv

           
ing but he mad

e one fatal sl

ip
              
When he tried 

              
to match the r

              
anger with the

 
 big iron on h

is hip
             
Big iron on hi

  
s hip

[Outro]
            
Big iron Big i

ron
              
When he tried 

              
to match the r

              
anger with the

 
 big iron on h

is hip
             
Big iron on hi

          
s hip


Leading into the outro emphasize these notes with the C walking into the F.

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