Johnny Cash - Big Iron
Unearthed: Redemption Songs (2003)
Original in C

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[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 h

              
ave too much t

    . .
o say
             
No one dared t

          .   
o ask his busi

             
ness, no one d

              
ared to make a

 .
 slip
             
For the strang

          .   
er there among

            
 them had a bi

              
g iron on his 

.
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

 .            
 looking all a

    . .
round
             
He's an outlaw

           .  
 loose and run

              
ning, came the

             
 whisper from 

     .
each lip
             
And he's here 

           .  
to do some bus

              
iness with the

            
 big iron on h

   .
is hip
             
Big iron on hi

     . . .
s hip

[Verse 3]
             
In this town, 

              
there 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

              
 and nineteen 

.    .
more
             
One and ninete

       . . .
en more

[Verse 4]
             
Now the strang

           .  
er started tal

              
king, made it 

            
plain to folks

      . .
 around
             
He was an Ariz

    .         
ona Ranger, wo

       .      
uldn'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]
             
The morning pa

        .     
ssed so quickl

            
y, it was time

             .
 for them to m

    . .
eet
             
It was twenty 

      .       
past eleven wh

        .     
en they walked

            
 out in the st

     . .
reet
             
Folks were wat

              
ching from the

   .          
ir windows, ev

             
erybody held t

     .
heir breath
             
They knew this

          .   
 handsome rang

            
er was about t

           .  
o meet his dea

   .
th
             
Was about to m

             . .
eet his death

[Verse 6]
             
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 when a b

             .
ullet fairly r

ipped
             
And the ranger

           .  
's aim was dea

             
dly with the b

             
ig iron on his

 .
 hip
             
The big iron o

         . .
n his hip

[Outro]
         .   
Big iron,   bi

      .
g iron
             
When he tried 

             .
to match the r

anger
            
With the big i

           .
ron on his hip
             
The big iron o

         . . .
n his hip