Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Big Iron, artist - Steve Goodman. Date of issue: 14.10.1996
Song language: English
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 the town |
| He came riding from the south side slowly looking all around |
| He's an outlaw loose and running came the 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 this 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 an nineteen more |
| One and nineteen more |
| Now the stranger started talking made it plain to folks around |
| Was an Arizona ranger wouldn't be too long in town |
| He came here to take an outlaw back alive or maybe dead |
| And he said it didn't matter he was after Texas Red |
| After Texas Red |
| Wasn't long before the 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 passed so quickly it was time for them to meet |
| It was twenty past eleven when they walked out in the street |
| Folks were watching from the windows every-body held their breath |
| They knew this 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 is still talked about today |
| Texas Red had not cleared leather fore 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 went on living but he made one fatal slip |
| When he tried to match the ranger with the big iron on his hip |
| Big iron on his hip |
| Big iron, big iron |
| When he tried to match the Ranger with the big iron on his hip |
| Big iron on his hip |