Ballad of a Small Man chords by Marty Robbins

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Intro 1

Verse 1
D 
 (D major) He was a small
C 
man but  (C major) this man was all man
D 
C 
 (D major) He was accustomed to danger  (C major) 
D 
 (D major) He knew the badlands,
C 
he  (C major) knew every bad man
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C 
D 
 (D major) This man  (C major) was a  (D major) ranger, ranger, ranger

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Verse 2

Into the township of Pecos he rode

Everyone noticed this stranger

Plainly it showed in the way

that he rode in

This man was a ranger,

Verse 3
ranger, ranger
C 
 (C major) Everyone watched as he climbed
D 
from his horse and walked  (D major) by
C 
 (C major) Every eye dropped to the gun
hanging low on his side
D 
C 
 (D major) The si (C major) lence was broken,
the ranger had spoken
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A 
And  (B flat major) these were his  (A major) words

Verse 4
D 
C 
 (D major) I've trailed an outlaw for thirty-six  (C major) days
days
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C 
 (D major) I'm twenty hours behind  (C major) him
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C 
 (D major) He's here in town so I'll just  (C major) be around
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C 
D 
 (D major) Long as it takes  (C major) me to find  (D major) him,
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find him, find him  (B flat major) 

Verse 5
Eb 
Slowly  (E flat major) he turned and he
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 (D flat major) looked down the street
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Db 
 (E flat major) Then he looked back to the crowd  (D flat major) 
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Db 
Somethin'  (E flat major) about him left  (D flat major) no   room to doubt
Eb 
Db 
He spoke  (E flat major) very little  (D flat major) but loud,
Eb 
but loud,  (E flat major) but loud

Verse 6

If it is pity you have for my size

Save it don't waste it, my friend

This equalizer I have on my hip

Makes me as big as the next man,

Verse 7
next man, next man
Db 
 (D flat major) Then from a door came a curse and
Eb 
they knew at a  (E flat major) glance
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 (D flat major) The outlaw had stepped to the street
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to begin his ad (E flat major) vance
Db 
 (D flat major) Women grabbed children,
men grabbed their wives
B 
Bb 
And thay  (B major) ran from the street  (B flat major) 

Verse 8
Eb 
Db 
 (E flat major) Even the soft, gentle breeze  (D flat major) became still
Eb 
Db 
 (E flat major) Death had a minute to  (D flat major) wait
Eb 
Db 
Two  (E flat major) hands would dive for a Colt  (D flat major) forty-five
Eb 
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One  (E flat major) One  hand would  (D flat major) come up too late,
Eb 
B 
too  (E flat major) late, too  (B major) late

Verse 9
E 
 (E major) "Go for your gun",
D 
was the  (D major) outlaw's remark
E 
"To (E major) morrow you'll sleep
D 
neath the stone (D major) ."
E 
The ranger  (E major) replied,
D 
"There'll be plenty  (D major) of time
E 
D 
 (E major) Af ter you go  (D major) for your own,
E 
your  (E major) own, your own."

Verse 10
E 
D 
 (E major) All of a sudden it happene (D major) d
E 
D 
Both  (E major) of then grabbed for a gun (D major) 
E 
 (E major) Both clearing leather,
D 
both fired  (D major) together
E 
D 
E 
 (E major) Everyone  (D major) thought it was  (E major) one gun,
one gun, one gun

Verse 11
D 
A  (D major) forty-five slug slug hit the
E 
outlaw and spun him around  (E major) 
D 
 (D major) His life was over,
E 
he died on his way to the  (E major) ground
D 
 (D major) To our surprise we watched
as the ranger
C 
B 
Took  (C major) one faltering step  (B major) 

Verse 12
E 
D 
Slowly  (E major) he crumbled and  (D major) fell to the ground
E 
D 
A  (E major) bullet was deep in his side  (D major) 
E 
D 
He  (E major) looked all around but he spoke  (D major) not a word
E 
D 
E 
A  (E major) faint little smile  (D major) and he  (E major) died,
C 
he died, he died  (C major) 

Verse 13
F 
 (F major) He was a small man but
Eb 
 (E flat major) this man was all man
F 
Eb 
 (F major) He was accustomed to danger  (E flat major) 
F 
 (F major) He knew the badlands,
Eb 
he  (E flat major) knew every bad man
F 
Eb 
F 
Eb 
 (F major) This man  (E flat major) was a  (F major) ranger (E flat major) ,
ranger, ranger
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F 
 (F major)  (F major) 