Chords with lyrics
- Submitter: Flyinglibra51
- Tuning: Standard tuning
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Big Iron Michael Martin Murphey Intro G#G# C# minorC#m C#m7C#m7 C# minorC#m C#m7C#m7 C# minorC#m C# minorC#m E MajorE C# minorC#m To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day E MajorE C# minorC#m Hardly spoke to folks around him didn`t have too much to say A augmentedA E MajorE No one dared to ask his business no one dared to make a slip C# minorC#m for the stranger there among them had a big iron on his hip A augmentedA E MajorE Big iron on his hip
C# minorC#m It was early in the morning when he rode into the town E MajorE C# minorC#m He came riding from the south side slowly lookin` all around A augmentedA E MajorE He`s an outlaw loose and running came the whisper from each lip C# minorC#m And he`s here to do some business with the big iron on his hip A augmentedA E MajorE big iron on his hip C# minorC#m In this town there lived an outlaw by the name of Texas Red E MajorE C# minorC#m Many men had tried to take him and that many men were dead A augmentedA E MajorE He was vicious and a killer though a youth of twenty four C# minorC#m And the notches on his pistol numbered one an nineteen more A augmentedA E MajorE One and nineteen more C# minorC#m Now the stranger started talking made it plain to folks around E MajorE C# minorC#m Was an Arizona ranger wouldn`t be too long in town A augmentedA E MajorE He came here to take an outlaw back alive or maybe dead C# minorC#m And he said it didn`t matter he was after Texas Red A augmentedA E MajorE After Texas Red C# minorC#m Wasn`t long before the story was relayed to Texas Red E MajorE C# minorC#m But the outlaw didn`t worry men that tried before were dead A augmentedA E MajorE Twenty men had tried to take twenty men had made a slip C# minorC#m Twenty one would be the ranger with the big iron on his hip A augmentedA E MajorE Big iron on his hip
C# minorC#m The morning passed so quickly it was time for them to meet E MajorE C# minorC#m It was twenty past eleven when they walked out in the street A augmentedA E MajorE Folks were watching from their windows everybody held their breath C# minorC#m They knew this handsome ranger was about to meet his death A augmentedA E MajorE About to meet his death There was forty feet between them C# minorC#m when they stopped to make their play E MajorE C# minorC#m And the swiftness of the ranger is still talked about today A augmentedA E MajorE Texas Red had not cleared leather for a bullet fairly ripped C# minorC#m And the rangers aim was deadly with the big iron on his hip A augmentedA E MajorE Big iron on his hip C# minorC#m It was over in a moment and the folks had gathered round E MajorE C# minorC#m There before them lay the body of the outlaw on the ground A augmentedA E MajorE Oh he might have gone on living but he made one fatal slip C# minorC#m When he tried to match the ranger with the big iron on his hip A augmentedA E MajorE Big iron on his hip A augmentedA E MajorE Big iron Big iron C# minorC#m When he tried to match the ranger with the big iron on his hip A augmentedA E MajorE C# minorC#m Big iron on his hip
Big Iron chords
Michael Martin Murphy recorded this song in 1993. Originally "Big Iron" is a country ballad by Marty Robbins. Originally released as an album track on Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs in September 1959, then as a single in February 1960 with the song "Saddle Tramp" as the B-side single. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.