Big Iron chords by Bob Weir
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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To the town of
Agua Fria rode
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A stranger one fine day
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Hardly spoke to folks around him
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Didn't have too much to say
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No one dared to ask his business
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No one dared to make a slip
The stranger there among them had a
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Big iron on his hip big iron on his hip
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Verse 2
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It was early in the morning when
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He rode into the town
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He came riding from the south side
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Slowly looking all around
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He's an outlaw loose and running
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Came a whisper from each lip
And he's here to do some business with
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The big iron on his hip big iron on his hip
Verse 3
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In this town there lived an outlaw
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By the name of Texas Red
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Many men had tried to take him
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And that many men were dead
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He was vicious and a killer
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Though a youth of twenty four
And the notches on his pistol
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Numbered one and nineteen more
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One and nineteen more
Verse 4
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Now the stranger started talking
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Made it plain to folks around
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He was an Arizonia Ranger
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Wouldn't be too long in town
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He came here to take an outlaw
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Back alive or maybe dead
And he said it didn't matter that
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He was af ter Texas Red
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after Texas Red
Verse 5
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Wasn't long before this story was
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Relayed to Texas Red
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But the outlaw didn't worry
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Men that tried before were dead
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Twenty men had tried to take him
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Twenty men had made a slip
Twenty one would be the Ranger with
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The big iron on his hip big iron on his hip
Now the morning passed so quickly and it
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Was time for them to meet
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It was twenty past eleven when they
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Walked out in the street
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Folks were watching from
their windows
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Everybody held their breath
They knew this handsome Ranger was
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About to meet his death
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About to meet his death
Interlude 1
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Verse 6
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There was twenty feet
between them when
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They stopped to make their play
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And the swiftness of the Ranger
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Is still talked about today
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Texas Red had not cleared leather
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When a bullet fairly ripped
And the Ranger's aim was deadly
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With the big iron on his hip
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Big iron on his hip
Verse 7
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It was over in a moment and
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The crowd all gathered 'round
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There before them lay the body of
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The outlaw on the ground
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Oh, he might have went on living
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But he made one fatal slip
When he tried to match the Ranger with
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The big iron on his hip big iron on his hip
Verse 8
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Big iron, big iron
When he tried to match the Ranger with
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The big iron on his hip big
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iron on his hip
Outro 1
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Big Iron
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