Big Iron

Marty Robbins

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  P1:
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  S1:
  To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day 

  Hardly spoke to folks around him, didn't have too much to say 

  No one dared to ask his business, no one dared to make a slip 

  For the stranger there among them had a big iron on his hip 

  Big iron on his hip
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  S2:
  It was early in the morning when he rode into the town 

  He came riding from the south side slowly looking all around 

  He's an outlaw loose and running, came the whisper from each lip 

  And he's here to do some business with the big iron on his hip 

  Big iron on his hip
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  S3:
  In this town there lived an outlaw by the name of Texas Red 

  Many men had tried to take him and that many men were dead 

  He was vicious and a killer though a youth of twenty four 

  And the notches on his pistol numbered one and nineteen more 

  One and nineteen more
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  S4:
  Now the stranger started talking, made it plain to folks around 

  Was an Arizona ranger, wouldn't be too long in town 

  He came here to take an outlaw back alive or maybe dead 

  And he said it didn't matter he was after Texas Red 

  After Texas Red
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  S5:
  Wasn't long before the story was relayed to Texas Red 

  But the outlaw didn't worry men that tried before were dead 

  Twenty men had tried to take him, twenty men had made a slip 

  twenty one would be the ranger with the big iron on his hip 

  Big iron on his hip
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  S6:
  The morning passed so quickly, it was time for them to meet 

  It was twenty past eleven when they walked out in the street 

  Folks were watching from the windows, everybody held their breath 

  They knew this handsome ranger was about to meet his death 

  About to meet his death
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  S7:
  There was fourty feet between them when they stopped to make their play 

  And the swiftness of the ranger is still talked about today 

  Texas Red had not cleared leather 'fore a bullet fairly ripped 

  And the ranger's aim was deadly with the big iron on his hip 

  Big iron on his hip
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  S8:
  It was over in a moment and the folks had gathered round 

  There before them lay the body of the outlaw on the ground 

  Oh, he might have went on living but he made one fatal slip 

  When he tried to match the ranger with the big iron on his hip 

  Big iron on his hip
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  D1:
  Big iron, big iron 

  When he tried to match the ranger with the big iron on his hip 

  Big iron on his hip 

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