Big Iron

Johnny Cash

Tom: C

Intro: Am .. Em .. Am

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To the town of Aqua Fria rode a stranger one fine day 
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Hardly spoke to folks around him didn't have too much to say 
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No one dared to ask his business no one dared to make a slip 
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For the stranger there among them had a big iron on his hip 
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Big iron on his hip 
 
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It was early in the morning when he rode into the town 
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He came riding from the southside slowly looking all around 
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He's an outlaw loose and running came the whisper from each  
           
lip 
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And he's here to do some business with the big iron on his  
 
hip 
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Big iron on his hip 
 
 
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 
 
Now the stranger started talking made it plain to folks around 
He 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 
 
The morning passed so quckly it was time for them to meet 
It was twenty past eleven when they walked out on the street 
Folks were watching from their windows everybody held their breath 
They knew this handsome ranger was about to meet his death 
Was about to meet his death 
 
There was forty fet 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 when a bullet fairly ripped 
And the ranger's aim was deadly with the big iron on his hip 
the Big iron on his hip 
 
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Big iron Big iron 
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When he tried to match the ranger with the Big iron on his  
 
hip 
 
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Big iron on his hip 
 
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