Big Iron

To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day
 Hardly spoke to folks around him
 Didn't have too much to say
 No one dared to ask his business
 No one dared to make a slip
 For the stranger there among them had a big iron on his hip
 Big iron on his hip
 It was early in the morning when he rode into town
 He came riding from the south side
 Slowly lookin' all around
 "He's an outlaw loose and runnin'"
 Come a whisper from each lip
 "And he's here to do some business with the big iron on his hip
 Big iron on his hip"
 In the town there lived an outlaw by the name of Texas Red
 Many men had tried to take him and that many men were dead
 He was vicious and a killer
 Though a youth of twenty four
 And the notches on his pistol numbered one and nineteen more
 One and nineteen more
 Now the stranger started talkin' made it plain to folks around
 Was an Arizonia ranger, wouldn't be too long in town
 He came there to take an outlaw back alive or maybe dead
 And he said it didn't matter that he was after Texas Red
 After Texas Red
 Wasn't long before this story was relayed to Texas Red
 But the outlaw didn't worry, men that tried before were dead
 Twenty men had tried to take him, twenty men had made a slip
 Twenty one would be the ranger with the big iron on his hip
 Big iron on his hip
 The morning past so quickly and it was time for them to meet
 It was twenty past eleven when they walked out on the street
 Folks were watchin' from their windows
 Everybody held their breath
 For they knew that handsome ranger was about to meet his death
 About to meet his death
 There was forty feet between them
 When they stopped to make their play
 And the swiftness of the Ranger still talked about today
 Texas Red had not cleared leather when a bullet fairly ripped
 And the ranger's aim was deadly, with the big iron on his hip
 Big iron on his hip
 It was over in a moment and the folks had gathered 'round
 There before them lay the body of the outlaw on the ground
 Oh, he might have gone on livin' but he made one final slip
 When he tried to match the ranger with the big iron on his hip
 Big iron on his hip
 Big iron, big iron
 Well, he tried to match the ranger with the big iron on his hip
 Big iron on his hip
 Big iron, big iron
 Well, he tried to match the ranger with the big iron on his hip
 Big iron on his hip