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Artist/Band: Marty Robbins
Lyrics for Song: Big Iron
Lyrics for Album: The Essential Marty Robbins [Columbia] [2005]



To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day

Hardly spoke to folks around him didn't have too much to say

No one dared to ask his business no one dared to make a slip

for the stranger there among them had a big iron on his hip

Big iron on his hip



It was early in the morning when he rode into the town

He came riding from the south side slowly lookin' all around

He's an outlaw loose and running came the whisper from each lip

And he's here to do some business with the big iron on his hip

big iron on his hip



In this town there lived an outlaw by the name of Texas Red

Many men had tried to take him and that many men were dead

He was vicious and a killer though a youth of twenty four

And the notches on his pistol numbered one an nineteen more

One and nineteen more



Now the stranger started talking made it plain to folks around

Was an Arizona ranger wouldn't be too long in town

He came here to take an outlaw back alive or maybe dead

And he said it didn't matter he was after Texas Red

After Texas Red



Wasn't long before the story was relayed to Texas Red

But the outlaw didn't worry men that tried before were dead

Twenty men had tried to take him twenty men had made a slip

Twenty one would be the ranger with the big iron on his hip

Big iron on his hip



The morning passed so quickly it was time for them to meet

It was twenty past eleven when they walked out in the street

Folks were watching from the windows every-body held their breath

They knew this handsome ranger was about to meet his death

About to meet his death



There was forty feet between them when they stopped to make their play

And the swiftness of the ranger is still talked about today

Texas Red had not cleared leather fore a bullet fairly ripped

And the ranger's aim was deadly with the big iron on his hip

Big iron on his hip



It was over in a moment and the folks had gathered round

There before them lay the body of the outlaw on the ground

Oh he might have went on living but he made one fatal slip

When he tried to match the ranger with the big iron on his hip

Big iron on his hip



Big iron Big iron



When he tried to match the ranger with the big iron on his hip


Album Lyrics: The Essential Marty Robbins [Columbia] [2005]


Marty Robbins
"The Essential Marty Robbins [Columbia] [2005]"


1. My Woman, My Woman, My Wife
2. El Paso
3. Ribbon of Darkness
4. The Shoe Goes on the Other Foot Tonight
5. Tonight Carmen
6. A White Sport Coat (And a Pink Carnation)
7. Devil Woman
8. You Gave Me a Mountain
9. Ruby Ann
10. I Walk Alone
11. Don't Worry
12. Begging to You
13. Among My Souvenirs
14. Some Memories Just Won't Die
15. This Much a Man
16. Love Me
17. Walking Piece of Heaven
18. Big Iron
19. El Paso City
20. Return to Me
21. She Was Only Seventeen (He Was One Year More)
22. I Don't Know Why (I Just Do)
23. Feleena (From El Paso)
24. Smoking Cigarettes Drinking Coffee Blues
25. I Can't Quit (I've Gone Too Far)
26. Don't Let Me Touch You
27. Honky Tonk Man
28. Mr. Teardrop
29. Ballad of the Alamo
30. The Cowboy in the Continental Suit