[00:00:00] Big Iron - Marty Robbins
[00:01:00] Written by：Robbins/Marty
[00:06:00] To the town of agua fria rode a stranger one fine day
[00:12:00] Hardly spoke to folks around him didn"t have too much to say
[00:18:00] No one dared to ask his business no one dared to make a slip
[00:23:00] For the stranger there amongst them had a big iron on his hip
[00:27:00] Big iron on his hip
[00:32:00] It was early in the morning when he rode into the town
[00:38:00] He came riding from the south side slowly lookin" all around
[00:44:00] He"s an outlaw loose and running came the whisper from each lip
[00:49:00] And he"s here to do some business with the big iron on his hip
[00:53:00] Big iron on his hip
[00:58:00] In this town there lived an outlaw by the name of texas red
[01:04:00] Many men had tried to take him and that many men were dead
[01:10:00] He was vicious and a killer though a youth of twenty four
[01:14:00] And the notches on his pistol numbered one and nineteen more
[01:19:00] One and nineteen more
[01:24:00] Now the stranger started talking made it plain to folks around
[01:30:00] Was an arizona ranger wouldn"t be too long in town
[01:36:00] He came here to take an outlaw back alive or maybe dead
[01:41:00] And he said it didn"t matter he was after texas red
[01:45:00] After texas red
[01:50:00] Wasn"t long before the story was relayed to texas red
[01:56:00] But the outlaw didn"t worry men that tried before were dead
[02:03:00] Twenty men had tried to take him twenty men had made a slip
[02:07:00] Twenty one would be the ranger with the big iron on his hip
[02:12:00] Big iron on his hip
[02:17:00] The morning passed so quickly it was time for them to meet
[02:23:00] It was twenty past eleven when they walked out in the street
[02:29:00] Folks were watching from the windows everybody held their breath
[02:34:00] They knew this handsome ranger was about to meet his death
[02:38:00] About to meet his death
[02:43:00] There was forty feet between them
[02:45:00] When they stopped to make their play
[02:49:00] And the swiftness of the ranger is still talked about today
[02:55:00] Texas red had not cleared leather for a bullet fairly ripped
[03:00:00] And the ranger"s aim was deadly with the big iron on his hip
[03:04:00] Big iron on his hip
[03:09:00] It was over in a moment and the folks had gathered "round
[03:15:00] There before them lay the body of the outlaw on the ground
[03:22:00] Oh he might have gone on living but he made one fatal slip
[03:26:00] When he tried to match the ranger with the big iron on his hip
[03:31:00] Big iron on his hip
[03:35:00] Big iron big iron
[03:40:00] When he tried to match the ranger
[03:41:00] With the big iron on his hip
[03:44:00] Big iron on his hip