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Version 1 Version 2 Version 3 Version 4Song: Big Iron Artist: Marty Robbins Standard Tuning: EADGBE [Chords used] C#m G# E A e -4- -4- -0- -0- b -5- -4- -0- -2- g -6- -5- -1- -2- d -6- -6- -2- -2- a -4- -6- -2- -0- e --- -4- -0- --- [Intro] C#m |G# C#m [Verse] E C#m To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day E C#m Hardly spoke to folks around him, didn't have too much to say A E No one dared to ask his business, no one dared to make a slip C#m For the stranger there amongst them had a big iron on his hip A E Big iron on his hip E C#m It was early in the morning when he rode into the town E C#m He came riding from the south side slowly lookin' all around A E He's an outlaw loose and running came the whisper from each lip C#m And he's here to do some business with the big iron on his hip A E big iron on his hip E C#m In this town there lived an outlaw by the name of Texas Red E C#m Many men had tried to take him and that many men were dead A E He was vicious and a killer though a youth of twenty-four C#m And the notches on his pistol numbered one an nineteen more A E One and nineteen more E C#m Now the stranger started talking, made it plain to folks around E C#m Was an Arizona ranger, wouldn't be too long in town A E He came here to take an outlaw back alive or maybe dead C#m And he said it didn't matter, he was after Texas Red A E After Texas Red E C#m Wasn't long before the story was relayed to Texas Red E C#m But the outlaw didn't worry, men that tried before were dead A E Twenty men had tried to take him, twenty men had made a slip C#m Twenty-one would be the ranger with the big iron on his hip A E Big iron on his hip E C#m The morning passed so quickly, it was time for them to meet E C#m It was twenty past eleven when they walked out in the street A E Folks were watching from their windows, every body held their breath C#m They knew this handsome ranger was about to meet his death A E About to meet his death E C#m There was forty feet between them when they stopped to make their play E C#m And the swiftness of the ranger is still talked about today A E Texas Red had not cleared leather for a bullet fairly ripped C#m And the rangers aim was deadly with the big iron on his hip A E Big iron on his hip E C#m It was over in a moment and the folks had gathered round E C#m There before them lay the body of the outlaw on the ground A E Oh he might have gone on living but he made one fatal slip C#m When he tried to match the ranger with the big iron on his hip A E Big iron on his hip C#m E Big iron, Big iron E C#m When he tried to match the ranger with the big iron on his hip A E Big iron on his hip [Outro] (strumming pattern not shown) C#m E -4-0- B -5-5- G -6-6- D -6-6- X6 A -4-4- e ----- Leave your comments and rate! Thank you! :)