Big Iron-Michael Martin Murphey/Marty Robbins

[ti:Big Iron (Album Version)] [ar:Michael Martin Murphey] [al:Cowboy Songs III] [by:] [offset:0] [00:06.85]To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day [00:11.73] [00:13.09]Hardly spoke to folks around him didn't have too much to say [00:17.66] [00:19.28]No one dared to ask his business no one dared to make a slip [00:23.16]For the stranger there among 'em had a big iron on his hip [00:28.04]Big iron on his hip [00:30.34] [00:32.73]It was early in the mornin' when he rode into town [00:37.35]He came ridin' from the south side slowly lookin' all around [00:43.41] [00:45.09]"He's an outlaw loose and runnin'" came a whisper from each lip [00:49.35]"He's here to do some business with the big iron on his hip [00:53.78]Big iron on his hip" [00:56.16] [00:58.41]In this town there lived an outlaw by the name of Texas Red [01:03.72] [01:04.54]Many men had tried to take him and that many men were dead [01:08.91] [01:10.73]He was vicious and a killer though a youth of twenty-four [01:14.48]And the notches on his pistol numbered one and nineteen more [01:19.22]One and nineteen more [01:21.35] [01:24.03]Now the stranger started talkin' made it plain to folks around [01:28.60] [01:30.04]Was an Arizonia ranger wouldn't be too long in town [01:34.66] [01:36.53]He came there to take an outlaw back alive or maybe dead [01:40.47] [01:41.04]Said it didn't matter he was after Texas Red after Texas Red [01:47.41] [01:49.98]Wasn't long before this story was relayed to Texas Red [01:54.16] [01:55.91]But the outlaw didn't worry men that tried before were dead [02:00.66] [02:02.79]Twenty men had tried to take him twenty men had made a slip [02:07.53]Twenty-one would be the ranger with the big iron on his hip [02:12.15]Big iron on his hip [02:14.78] [02:17.03]The mornin' past so quickly it was time for them to meet [02:21.71] [02:22.96]It was twenty past eleven when they walked out in the street [02:27.34] [02:29.15]Folks were watchin' from their windows every body held their breath [02:33.41]They knew this handsome ranger was about to meet his death [02:38.03]About to meet his death [02:39.97] [02:42.59]There was forty feet between them when they stopped to make their play [02:47.15] [02:48.90]And the swiftness of the Ranger is still talked about today [02:53.34] [02:55.09]Texas Red had not cleared leather for a bullet fairly ripped [02:59.22]And the ranger's aim was deadly with the big iron on his hip [03:03.84]Big iron on his hip [03:06.53] [03:08.71]It was over in a moment and the folks had gathered 'round [03:13.40] [03:14.84]There before them lay the body of the outlaw on the ground [03:19.40] [03:21.03]Oh he might have gone on livin' but he made one fatal slip [03:25.15]When he tried to match the ranger with the big iron on his hip [03:29.66]Big iron on his hip [03:32.34] [03:34.59]Big iron big iron [03:38.41]When he tried to match the ranger with the big iron on his hip [03:43.15]Big iron on his hip