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Version 1 Version 2 Version 3 Version 4BIG IRON |D |Em To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day |D Em Hardly spoke to folks around him didn't have too much to say G |D No one dared to ask his business no one dared to make a slip |Em for the stranger there amongst them had a big iron on his hip |G |D Big iron on his hip |D Em It was early in the morning when he rode into the town |D |Em He came riding from the south side slowly lookin' all around |G |D He's an outlaw loose and running came the whisper from each lip |Em And he's here to do some business with the big iron on his hip |G |D big iron on his hip |D Em In this town there lived an outlaw by the name of Texas Red |D |Em Many men had tried to take him and that many men were dead |G |D He was vicious and a killer though a youth of twenty four |Em And the notches on his pistol numbered one an nineteen more |G |D One and nineteen more |D |Em Now the stranger started talking made it plain to folks around |D |Em Was an Arizona ranger wouldn't be too long in town |G |D He came here to take an outlaw back alive or maybe dead |Em And he said it didn't matter he was after Texas Red |G |D After Texas Red |D |Em Wasn't long before the story was relayed to Texas Red |D |Em But the outlaw didn't worry men that tried before were dead |G D Twenty men had tried to take him twenty men had made a slip |Em Twenty one would be the ranger with the big iron on his hip |G |D Big iron on his hip |D |Em The morning passed so quickly it was time for them to meet |D |Em It was twenty past eleven when they walked out in the street |G |D Folks were watching from their windows every-body held their breath |Em They knew this handsome ranger was about to meet his death |G |D About to meet his death |D There was forty feet between them when they stopped to make their Em play |D |Em And the swiftness of the ranger is still talked about to-day |G |D Texas Red had not cleared leather when a bullet fairly ripped |Em And the rangers aim was deadly with the big iron on his hip |G |D Big iron on his hip |D |Em It was over in a moment and the folks had gathered round |D |Em There before them lay the body of the outlaw on the ground |G |D Oh he might have gone on living but he made one fatal slip |Em When he tried to match the ranger with the big iron on his hip |G |D Big iron on his hip Em D Big iron Big iron |D |Em When he tried to match the ranger with the big iron on his hip