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[ti:Big Iron (Album Version)]
[ar:Michael Martin Murphey]
[al:Cowboy Songs III]
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[00:06.850]To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day
[00:13.097]Hardly spoke to folks around him didn't have too much to say
[00:19.284]No one dared to ask his business no one dared to make a slip
[00:23.168]For the stranger there among 'em had a big iron on his hip
[00:28.042]Big iron on his hip
[00:32.732]It was early in the mornin' when he rode into town
[00:37.354]He came ridin' from the south side slowly lookin' all around
[00:45.099]"He's an outlaw loose and runnin'" came a whisper from each lip
[00:49.355]"He's here to do some business with the big iron on his hip
[00:53.787]Big iron on his hip"
[00:58.419]In this town there lived an outlaw by the name of Texas Red
[01:04.542]Many men had tried to take him and that many men were dead
[01:10.731]He was vicious and a killer though a youth of twenty-four
[01:14.483]And the notches on his pistol numbered one and nineteen more
[01:19.223]One and nineteen more
[01:24.039]Now the stranger started talkin' made it plain to folks around
[01:30.046]Was an Arizonia ranger wouldn't be too long in town
[01:36.538]He came there to take an outlaw back alive or maybe dead
[01:41.040]Said it didn't matter he was after Texas Red after Texas Red
[01:49.983]Wasn't long before this story was relayed to Texas Red
[01:55.914]But the outlaw didn't worry men that tried before were dead
[02:02.790]Twenty men had tried to take him twenty men had made a slip
[02:07.535]Twenty-one would be the ranger with the big iron on his hip
[02:12.155]Big iron on his hip
[02:17.035]The mornin' past so quickly it was time for them to meet
[02:22.967]It was twenty past eleven when they walked out in the street
[02:29.154]Folks were watchin' from their windows every body held their breath
[02:33.412]They knew this handsome ranger was about to meet his death
[02:38.035]About to meet his death
[02:42.598]There was forty feet between them when they stopped to make their play
[02:48.904]And the swiftness of the Ranger is still talked about today
[02:55.098]Texas Red had not cleared leather for a bullet fairly ripped
[02:59.222]And the ranger's aim was deadly with the big iron on his hip
[03:03.844]Big iron on his hip
[03:08.718]It was over in a moment and the folks had gathered 'round
[03:14.849]There before them lay the body of the outlaw on the ground
[03:21.037]Oh he might have gone on livin' but he made one fatal slip
[03:25.153]When he tried to match the ranger with the big iron on his hip
[03:29.663]Big iron on his hip
[03:34.593]Big iron big iron
[03:38.412]When he tried to match the ranger with the big iron on his hip
[03:43.157]Big iron on his hip