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Big Iron

Big Iron

Big Iron chords

by Marty Robbins

Year: 1959

Genre: Country

Guitar
TuningE A D G B E
CapoFret 4
Transpose
EADGBE
Capo

Am
E
C
F

Smart scroll

Chord Highlight

Intro 1

Am

Am

E

Am

Verse 1

To the town

C

of

Agua

Fria

Am

rode a stranger

one fine

day

Hardly

C

spoke to folks

around

him,

didn't have

too

much to

Am

say

No one

F

dared to

ask his

business,

no one

C

dared to

make a

slip

The stranger

there among

them

had a

Am

big iron

on his

hip

F

Big iron

on his

C

hip

Verse 2

C

It was early

in the morning

when he rode

Am

into

the town

He came riding

C

from

the south

side,

slowly

lookin' all

Am

around

F

"He's an outlaw

loose and runnin'",

came the

C

whisper

from each

lip

"And he's

here to do

some

business

with a

Am

big iron

on his

hip"

F

"Big iron

on his

C

hip"

Verse 3

In this town

C

there

lived an

outlaw

by the

Am

name of

Texas Red

Many men

C

had

tried to

take him

and that

many men

were

Am

dead

He was

F

vicious

and a

killer,

though a

C

youth of

twenty four

And the

notches

on his

pistol

numbered one

Am

and

nineteen

more

F

One and

nineteen

C

more

Verse 4

C

Now the stranger

started

talkin'

made it

Am

plain to

folks around

C

Was an Arizona

ranger,

wouldn't be

too long

in

Am

town

He came

F

here to

take an

outlaw

back alive

C

or

maybe

dead

And he

said it

didn't

matter

Am

he was after

Texas

Red

F

After

Texas

C

Red

Verse 5

Wasn't long

C

before

this

story

was relayed

Am

to

Texas Red

But the outlaw

C

didn't

worry,

men that

tried

before

were

Am

dead

Twenty men

F

had

tried to take

him,

twenty men

C

had

made a

slip

Twenty one

would

be the ranger

with the

Am

big iron

on his

hip

F

Big iron

on his

C

hip

Verse 6

The

C

morning passed

so

quickly

it was time

Am

for

them to

meet

It was

C

twenty past

eleven

when they

walked out

in the

Am

street

Folks were

F

watchin'

from the

windows

Every

C

body

held their

breath

They

knew this

handsome

ranger was

a

Am

bout

to meet

his death

A

F

bout to

meet his

C

death

Verse 7

There was

C

forty

feet between

them

When they

Am

stopped to

make their

play

And the

C

swiftness

of the

Ranger

is still

talked about

Am

today

Texas

F

Red had

not cleared

leather

for a

C

bullet

fairly

ripped

And the

ranger's

aim was

deadly,

with the

Am

big iron

on his

hip

F

Big iron

on his

C

hip

Verse 8

It was

C

over

in a

moment

and the

Am

folks had

gathered

'round

There be

C

fore them

lay the

body

of the

outlaw

Am

on the ground

Oh, he

F

might have

went on

livin'

but he made

C

one

fatal

slip

When he tried

to

match the

ranger

with the

Am

big iron

on his

hip

F

Big iron

on his

C

hip

Big

F

iron,

big

C

iron

When he tried

C

to

match the

ranger

with the

Am

big iron

on his

hip

F

Big iron

on his

C

hip

Am

Am

Am

Am

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