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Artist/Band: 
Marty Robbins 
Lyrics for Song: Big Iron 
Lyrics for Album: The Essential Marty Robbins [Columbia] [2005]
  
               
  7290>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
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| Album Lyrics: The Essential Marty Robbins [Columbia] [2005] | 
 
   Marty Robbins 
"The Essential Marty Robbins [Columbia] [2005]"
 
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