Marty Robbins – Big Iron chords

        BIG IRON


       |D                                         |EmTo the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day
       |D                                                EmHardly spoke to folks around him didn't have too much to say
       G                               |DNo one dared to ask his business no one dared to make a slip
                                          |Emfor the stranger there amongst them had a big iron on his hip
|G              |DBig iron on his hip


       |D                            EmIt was early in the morning when he rode into the town
        |D                                            |EmHe came riding from the south side slowly lookin' all around
        |G                                |DHe's an outlaw loose and running came the whisper from each lip
                                           |EmAnd he's here to do some business with the big iron on his hip
|G              |Dbig iron on his hip


        |D                                              EmIn this town there lived an outlaw by the name of Texas Red
     |D                                               |EmMany men had tried to take him and that many men were dead
       |G                            |DHe was vicious and a killer though a youth of twenty four
                                       |EmAnd the notches on his pistol numbered one an nineteen more
|G               |DOne and nineteen more


        |D                                              |EmNow the stranger started talking made it plain to folks around
       |D                                     |EmWas an Arizona ranger wouldn't be too long in town
        |G                          |DHe came here to take an outlaw back alive or maybe dead
                                    |EmAnd he said it didn't matter he was after Texas Red
|G          |DAfter Texas Red
        |D                                         |EmWasn't long before the story was relayed to Texas Red
        |D                                             |EmBut the outlaw didn't worry men that tried before were dead
       |G                                DTwenty men had tried to take him twenty men had made a slip
                                        |EmTwenty one would be the ranger with the big iron on his hip
|G              |DBig iron on his hip


    |D                                |EmThe morning passed so quickly it was time for them to meet
       |D                                             |EmIt was twenty past eleven when they walked out in the street
           |G                                |DFolks were watching from their windows every-body held their breath
                                   |EmThey knew this handsome ranger was about to meet his death
|G                |DAbout to meet his death


          |D                                  There was forty feet between them when they stopped to make their
Emplay
        |D                                               |EmAnd the swiftness of the ranger is still talked about to-day
      |G                                 |DTexas Red had not cleared leather when a bullet fairly ripped
                                        |EmAnd the rangers aim was deadly with the big iron on his hip
|G              |DBig iron on his hip


       |D                                          |EmIt was over in a moment and the folks had gathered round
      |D                                            |EmThere before them lay the body of the outlaw on the ground
      |G                               |DOh he might have gone on living but he made one fatal slip
                                           |EmWhen he tried to match the ranger with the big iron on his hip
|G              |DBig iron on his hip
Em        DBig iron Big iron
        |D                                 |EmWhen he tried to match the ranger with the big iron on his hip