BIG IRON


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To the town of

              
 Agua Fria rod

              
e a stranger o

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ne fine day
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Hardly spoke t

              
o folks around

              
 him didn't ha

              
ve too much to

 
 say
             
No one dared t

              
o ask his busi

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ness no one da

red to make a 

slip
              
for the strang

              
er there among

              
st them had a 

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big iron on hi

s hip
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Big iron on hi

  |
s hip


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It was early i

              
n the morning 

         
when he rode i

nto the town
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He came riding

              
 from the sout

              
h side slowly 

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lookin' all ar


ound
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He's an outlaw

              
 loose and run

              
ning came the 

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whisper from e

ach lip
              
And he's here 

              
to do some bus

              
iness with the

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 big iron on h

is hip
|            
big iron on hi

  |
s hip


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In this town t

              
here lived an 

              
outlaw by the 

              
name of Texas 


Red
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Many men had t

              
ried to take h

              
im and that ma

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ny men were de


ad
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He was vicious

              
 and a killer 

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though a youth

 of twenty fou

r
              
And the notche

              
s on his pisto

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l numbered one

 an nineteen m

ore
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One and ninete

   |
en more


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Now the strang

              
er started tal

              
king made it p

              
lain 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 t

              
o take an outl

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aw back alive 

or maybe dead
              
And he said it

              
 didn't matter

        |
 he was after 

Texas Red
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After Texas Re

d
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Wasn't long be

              
fore the story

              
 was relayed t

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o Texas Red
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But the outlaw

              
 didn't worry 

              
men that tried

             |
 before were d


ead
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Twenty men had

              
 tried to take

             
 him twenty me

n had made a s

lip
              
Twenty one wou

              
ld be the rang

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er with the bi


g iron on his 

hip
|            
Big iron on hi

  |
s hip


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The morning pa

              
ssed so quickl

          |
y it was time 

for them to me

et
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It was twenty 

              
past eleven wh

              
en they walked

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 out in the st


reet
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Folks were wat

              
ching from the

              
ir windows eve

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ry-body held t

heir breath
              
They knew this

              
 handsome rang

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er was about t

o meet his dea

th
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About to meet 

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his death


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There was fort

              
y feet between

              
 them when the

    
y stopped to m

ake their

play
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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 dead

            |
ly with the bi


g iron on his 

hip
|            
Big iron on hi

  |
s hip


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It was over in

              
 a moment and 

              
the folks had 

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gathered round
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There before t

              
hem lay the bo

              
dy of the outl

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aw on the grou

nd
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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

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 big iron on h

is hip
|            
Big iron on hi

  |
s hip
        
Big iron Big i

ron
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When he tried 

              
to match the r

              
anger with the

 |
 big iron on h

is hip