Song: Big Iron
Artist: Marty Robbins
Standard Tuning: EADGBE


[Intro]

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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 

             
lookin' all ar

#
ound
             
"He's an outla

              
w loose and ru

              
nning", came t

   
he whisper fro

m 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 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

 and nineteen 

more
             
One and ninete

   
en more


[Verse 4]

             
Now the strang

              
er started tal

              
king, made it 


plain to folks

 around
             
Was an Arizona

              
 ranger, would

              
n't be too lon

     
g 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 trie

              
d before were 


dead
             
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]

             
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
             
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 dea

             
dly with the b

#
ig iron on his

 hip
             
Big iron on hi

  
s 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 went 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 


iron
             
When he tried 

              
to match the r

              
anger with the

 
 big iron on h

is hip
             
Big iron on hi

  
s hip


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