Big Iron chords by
Steve Goodman

N/A

Key: F major

Intro 1
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Verse 1
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To the town of Agua Fria
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Rode a stranger one fine day
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Hardly spoke to folks around him
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Didn't have a lot to say
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No one dared to ask his business
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No one dared to make a slip
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The stranger there among them Had a

Verse 2

big iron on his hip

A big iron on his hip

Verse 3
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It was early in the mornin'
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When he rode into the town
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He was ridin' out of the south side
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Slowly lookin' all around
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He's an outlaw loose and

Verse 4
runnin'
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That's the whisper on each lip
And he's here to do some business
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With the big iron on his hip
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With the big iron on his hip
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Verse 5
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Pretty soon the stranger talked
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And made it plain to folks around
He was an Arizona Ranger
And wouldn't be too
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Bm Bm 2
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long in town
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He'd come here to take
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an outlaw back
Alive or maybe dead
And he said it didn't matter
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He was after Texas Red after Texas Red

Verse 6
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In that town there lived an outlaw
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By the name of Texas Red
But the outlaw didn't worry
Men that tried before were dead
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Red was vicious and

Verse 7
a killer
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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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Verse 8
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Well the morning passed so quickly
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And it was time for them to meet
It was twenty after eleven
When they walked out in the street
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Folks was watching out of their Windows, and every

Verse 9
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body
held their breath
They knew that handsome Ranger
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Was about to meet his death
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About to meet his death
There was forty feet between them
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When they stopped to make their play
And the swiftness of the Ranger
Is still spoken of 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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The big iron on his hip

Verse 10
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When the dust had cleared the
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People gathered all around
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There before them was the body of
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The outlaw on the ground
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He could have gone on livin' but
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He made a fatal slip
He tried to stop an Arizona Ranger with
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A big iron on his hip big iron on his hip
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Big iron,

Verse 11

big iron

He tried to stop a Ranger with

A big iron on his hip

Verse 12

Yippee I yay yippee I O

big iron on his hip

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