Steve Goodman - Big Iron lyrics

To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day Hardly spoke to folks around him, didn't have a lot to say No one dared to ask his business, no one dared to make a slip The stranger there among them had a big iron on his hip A big iron on his hip It was early in the mornin' when he rode into the town He was ridin' out of the south side slowly lookin' all around He's an outlaw loose and runnin', that's the whisper on each lip And he's here to do some business with the big iron on his hip With the big iron on his hip Pretty soon the stranger talked and made it plain to folks around He was an Arizona Ranger and wouldn't be too long in town He'd come 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 In that town there lived an outlaw by the name of Texas Red But the outlaw didn't worry, men that tried before were dead Red was vicious and a k**er though a youth of twenty four (That was easy for me to say) And the notches on his pistol numbered one and nineteen more One and nineteen more Well the morning pa**ed so quickly and it was time for them to meet It was twenty after eleven when they walked out in the street Folks was watching out of their windows, and everybody held their breath They knew that handsome Ranger was about to meet his d**h About to meet his d**h There was forty feet between them when they stopped to make their play And the swiftness of the Ranger is still spoken of 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 The big iron on his hip When the dust had cleared the people gathered all around There before them was the body of the outlaw on the ground He could have gone on livin' but he made a fatal slip He tried to stop an Arizona Ranger with a big iron on his hip Big iron on his hip Big iron Big iron He tried to stop a Ranger with a big iron on his hip Yippee I Yay, Yippee I O. Big Iron on his hip