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[ti:Big Iron] |
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[ar:Marty Robbins] |
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[al:Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs] |
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To the town of Agua 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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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 south side, slowly lookin' all around |
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"He's an outlaw loose and runnin'", came a whisper from each lip |
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"And he's here to do some business with a big iron on his hip, |
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big iron on his hip" |
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In this town there lived an outlaw by the name of Texas Red |
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Many men had tried to take him and that many men were dead |
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He was vicious and a killer, though a youth of twenty four |
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And the notches on his pistol numbered one and nineteen more, |
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one and nineteen more |
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Now the stranger started talkin' made it plain to folks around |
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Was an Arizonia ranger, wouldn't be too long in town |
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He was here to take an outlaw back alive or maybe dead |
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And he said it didn't matter that he was after Texas Red, |
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after Texas Red |
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Wasn't long before this story was relayed to Texas Red |
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But the outlaw didn't worry, men who tried before were dead |
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Twenty men had tried to take him, twenty men had made a slip, |
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Twenty one would be the ranger with the big iron on his hip, |
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big iron on his hip |
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Now the morning past so quickly and it was time for them to meet |
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It was twenty past eleven when they rode out in the street |
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Folks were watchin' from their windows, |
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every body held their breath, |
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They knew this handsome ranger was about to meet his death, |
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about to meet his death |
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There was twenty feet between them |
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when they stopped to make their play |
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And the swiftness of the Ranger still talked about today |
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Texas Red had not cleared leather when a bullet fairly ripped |
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And the ranger's aim was deadly, with the big iron on his hip, |
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big iron on his hip |
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It was over in a moment and the crowd all gathered 'round |
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There before them lay the body of the outlaw on the ground |
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Oh, he might have went on livin' but he made one fatal slip |
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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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Big iron, big iron, |
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Oh he tried to match the ranger with the big iron on his hip, |
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Big iron on his hip |
