Big Iron-Marty Robbins

[ti:Big Iron] [ar:Marty Robbins] [al:The Essential Marty Robbins 19] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Big Iron - Marty Robbins [00:06.22]To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day [00:11.84] [00:12.46]Hardly spoke to folks around him didn't have too much to say [00:17.76] [00:18.89]No one dared to ask his business no one dared to make a slip [00:22.82]For the stranger there among them had a big iron on his hip [00:27.06]Big iron on his hip [00:30.62] [00:32.37]It was early in the morning when he rode into the town [00:36.62] [00:38.43]He came riding from the south side slowly lookin' all around [00:43.24] [00:44.73]He's an outlaw loose and running came the whisper from each lip [00:48.73]And he's here to do some business with the big iron on his hip [00:52.97]Big iron on his hip [00:55.65] [00:58.90]In this town there lived an outlaw by the name of Texas Red [01:04.26]Many men had tried to take him and that many men were dead [01:09.32] [01:10.50]He was vicious and a killer though a youth of twenty four [01:14.50]And the notches on his pistol numbered one an nineteen more [01:18.87]One and nineteen more [01:22.36] [01:23.98]Now the stranger started talking made it plain to folks around [01:28.16]Was an Arizona ranger wouldn't be too long in town [01:35.15] [01:36.21]He came here to take an outlaw back alive or maybe dead [01:40.52]And he said it didn't matter he was after Texas Red [01:45.64]After Texas Red [01:47.82] [01:49.94]Wasn't long before the story was relayed to Texas Red [01:55.00] [01:56.18]But the outlaw didn't worry men that tried before were dead [02:01.74] [02:03.42]Twenty men had tried to take him twenty men had made a slip [02:07.54]Twenty one would be the ranger with the big iron on his hip [02:11.66]Big iron on his hip [02:15.15] [02:17.34]The morning passed so quickly it was time for them to meet [02:22.08] [02:23.20]It was twenty past eleven when they walked out in the street [02:28.63] [02:29.69]Folks were watching from the windows every-body held their breath [02:33.44]They knew this handsome ranger was about to meet his death [02:37.74]About to meet his death [02:41.80] [02:43.04]There was forty feet between them when they stopped to make their play [02:48.54] [02:49.35]And the swiftness of the ranger is still talked about today [02:55.59]Texas Red had not cleared leather fore a bullet fairly ripped [02:59.64]And the ranger's aim was deadly with the big iron on his hip [03:03.76]Big iron on his hip [03:07.69] [03:09.25]It was over in a moment and the folks had gathered round [03:14.12] [03:15.37]There before them lay the body of the outlaw on the ground [03:20.74] [03:21.48]Oh he might have went on living but he made one fatal slip [03:25.98]When he tried to match the ranger with the big iron on his hip [03:29.91]Big iron on his hip [03:34.03] [03:35.27]Big iron Big iron [03:39.46]When he tried to match the ranger with the big iron on his hip [03:43.51]Big iron on his hip