Big Iron chords by Michael Martin Murphey

• Tuning: Standard tuning
• Difficulty: Beginner 👶

Big Iron
Michael Martin Murphey


Intro  G# C#m C#m7 C#m C#m7 C#m C#m

       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 among them had a big iron on his hip
A               E
Big iron on his hip

                                    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


                                          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


                                         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

                                 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 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


                                     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 everybody held their breath
                                   C#m
They knew this handsome ranger was about to meet his death
A                 E
About to meet his death



There was forty feet between them
                                C#m
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


                                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
    A        E
Big iron Big iron
                                           C#m
When he tried to match the ranger with the big iron on his hip
A               E    C#m
Big iron on his hip