Big Iron

[Intro] Am  Em  Am

       C                                          Am
To the town of Aqua Fria rode a stranger one fine day
       C                                                 Am
Hardly spoke to folks around him didn't have too much to say
       F                                C
No one dared to ask his business no one dared to make a slip
                                        Am
For the stranger there among them had a big iron on his hip
F               C
Big iron on his hip

       C                                          Am
It was early in the morning when he rode into the town
        C                                            Am
He came riding from the southside slowly looking all around
        F                                 C
He's an outlaw loose and running came the whisper from each

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

hip
F               C
Big iron on his hip

     C                                                   Am
In this town there lived an outlaw by the name of Texas Red
     C                                                  Am
Many men had tried to take him and that many men were dead
          F                             C
He was vicious and a killer though a youth of twenty four

And the notches on his pistol numbered one and nineteen more
                  Am
One and nineteen more

            C                                             Am
Now the stranger started talking made it plain to folks around

          C                                       Am
He was an Arizona Ranger wouldn't be too long in town
          F                           C
He came here to take an outlaw back alive or maybe dead                
                          Am
And he said it didn't matter he was after Texas Red
  F          C
After Texas Red
       C                                               Am
The morning passed so quickly it was time for them to meet
        C                                               Am
It was twenty past eleven when they walked out on the street
              F                              C
Folks were watching from their windows everybody held their breath
                                                     Am
They knew this handsome ranger was about to meet his death
      F                 C
Was about to meet his death

           C
There was forty feet between them when they stopped to make their
 Am
play
           C                                            Am
And the swiftness of the ranger is still talked about today
       F                                   C
Texas Red had not cleared leather when a bullet fairly ripped
                                              Am
And the ranger's aim was deadly with the big iron on his hip
     F               C
the Big iron on his hip

F            C
Big iron Big iron
        C                                  Am
When he tried to match the ranger with the Big iron on his

hip
F               C
Big iron on his hip

[Final] C  Am

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