Big Iron-Marty Robbins/Connie Stevens

[ti:Big Iron] [ar:Marty Robbins/Connie Stevens] [al:A Variety of Hits, Vol. 3] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Big Iron - Marty Robbins/Connie Stevens [00:06.70]To the town of agua fria rode a stranger one fine day [00:10.91] [00:13.20]Hardly spoke to folks around him didn't have too much to say [00:18.67] [00:19.23]No one dared to ask his business no one dared to make a slip [00:23.68]For the stranger there among them had a big iron on his hip [00:27.66] [00:28.35]Big iron on his hip [00:29.72] [00:32.98]It was early in the morning when he rode into the town [00:36.86] [00:39.19]He came riding from the south side slowly lookin' all around [00:43.80] [00:45.44]He's an outlaw loose and running came the whisper from each lip [00:49.80]And he's here to do some business with the big iron on his hip [00:53.50] [00:54.24]Big iron on his hip [00:56.04] [00:58.83]In this town there lived an outlaw by the name of texas red [01:03.51] [01:05.02]Many men had tried to take him and that many men were dead [01:09.81] [01:11.24]He was vicious and a killer though a youth of twenty four [01:15.31]And the notches on his pistol numbered one an nineteen more [01:19.34] [01:19.92]One and nineteen more [01:22.22] [01:24.54]Now the stranger started talking made it plain to folks around [01:28.58] [01:30.83]Was an arizona ranger wouldn't be too long in town [01:35.60] [01:36.85]He came here to take an outlaw back alive or maybe dead [01:41.52]And he said it didn't matter he was after texas red [01:45.80]After texas red [01:49.19] [01:50.20]Wasn't long before the story was relayed to texas red [01:55.50] [01:56.93]But the outlaw didn't worry men that tried before were dead [02:02.49] [02:04.28]Twenty men had tried to take him twenty men had made a slip [02:08.41]Twenty one would be the ranger with the big iron on his hip [02:12.82]Big iron on his hip [02:15.90] [02:17.95]The morning passed so quickly it was time for them to meet [02:21.60] [02:23.92]It was twenty past eleven when they walked out in the street [02:30.21]Folks were watching from the windows every-body held their breath [02:34.41]They knew this handsome ranger was about to meet his death [02:38.23] [02:38.79]About to meet his death [02:42.50] [02:43.50]There was forty feet between them when they stopped to make their play [02:47.70] [02:50.01]And the swiftness of the ranger is still talked about today [02:54.61] [02:56.04]Texas red had not cleared leather fore a bullet fairly ripped [03:00.63]And the ranger's aim was deadly with the big iron on his hip [03:04.32] [03:05.42]Big iron on his hip [03:08.38] [03:09.89]It was over in a moment and the folks had gathered round [03:13.86] [03:15.93]There before them lay the body of the outlaw on the ground [03:20.60] [03:22.37]Oh he might have went on living but he made one fatal slip [03:26.61]When he tried to match the ranger with the big iron on his hip [03:30.40] [03:31.24]Big iron on his hip [03:34.58] [03:36.03]Big iron big iron [03:40.10]When he tried to match the ranger with the big iron on his hip [03:43.98] [03:44.61]Big iron on his hip