Big Iron-The Winchester Chorale

[ti:Big Iron] [ar:The Winchester Chorale] [al:Music Of The West] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Big Iron - The Winchester Chorale [00:05.71]To the town of agua fria rode a stranger one fine day [00:11.48]Hardly spoke to folks him around didn't have too much to say [00:17.42]No one dared to ask his business no one dared to make a slip [00:22.74]For the stranger there among 'em had a big iron on his hip [00:27.95]Big iron on his hip [00:29.65] [00:30.80]It was early in the mornin' when he rode into town [00:36.87]He came ridin' from the south side slowly lookin' all around [00:42.33] [00:42.97]He's an outlaw loose and runnin' came a whisper from each lip [00:48.12]He's here to do some business with the big iron on his hip [00:53.14]Big iron on his hip [00:55.88] [00:58.87]In this town there lived an outlaw by the name of texas red [01:04.08] [01:05.13]Many men had tried to take him and that many men were dead [01:09.98] [01:11.09]He was vicious and a killer though a youth of twenty-four [01:14.96] [01:15.77]And the notches on his pistol numbered one and nineteen more [01:20.38] [01:21.01]One and nineteen more [01:23.44] [01:24.15]Now the stranger started talkin' made it plain to folks around [01:29.00] [01:30.01]Was an arizonia ranger wouldn't be in town too long [01:34.67] [01:36.07]He came there to take an outlaw back alive or maybe dead [01:40.42] [01:41.12]He [01:41.29]Said it didn't matter he was after texas red after texas red [01:48.25] [01:51.76]Wasn't long before this story was relayed to texas red [01:56.05] [01:57.68]But the outlaw didn't worry men that tried before were dead [02:02.15] [02:03.62]Twenty men had tried to take him twenty men had made a slip [02:07.79] [02:09.01]Twenty-one would be the ranger with the big iron on his hip [02:13.99] [02:14.79]Big iron on his hip [02:16.50] [02:17.04]The mornin' past so quickly it was time for them to meet [02:20.99] [02:22.56]It was twenty past eleven when they walked out in the street [02:26.90] [02:28.48]Folks were watchin' from their windows [02:30.94]Every body held their breath [02:32.95] [02:33.82]They knew this handsome ranger was about to meet his death [02:37.77] [02:38.50]About to meet his death [02:41.21] [02:44.07]There was forty feet between them when they [02:46.62]Stopped to make their play [02:48.52] [02:49.79]And the swiftness of the ranger is still talked about today [02:54.24] [02:56.10]Texas red had not cleared leather for a bullet fairly ripped [03:00.84]And the ranger's aim was deadly with the big iron on his hip [03:05.58]Big iron on his hip [03:08.04] [03:08.92]It was over in a moment and the folks had gathered 'round [03:13.15] [03:14.60]There before them lay the body of the outlaw on the ground [03:19.07] [03:20.50]He might have gone on livin' but he made one fatal slip [03:24.69] [03:25.29]When he tried to match the ranger with the big iron on his hip [03:29.10] [03:30.10]Big iron on his hip [03:32.14] [03:33.13]With the big iron on his hip [03:35.25]With the big iron on his hip [03:37.51]With the big iron on his hip [03:39.79]With the big iron on his hip [03:42.02]With the big iron on his hip