C#m _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .
G# _ _
C#m To the town of Alfrea rode a stranger one fine day, _
E Hardly spoke to folks around him, didn't have too
C#m much to say.
_ .
_
C# No
A one dared to ask his business, no
E one dared to make a slip, The stranger there among
C#m them had a big iron on his hip.
A Big
E iron on his _ hip.
_ _ _ It was early in the morning
C#m when he rode into the town, _ _
E He came riding from the south side slowly looking
G#m all
C#m around.
_ _
A He's an outlaw loose and running
E came the whisper from each lip, And he's here to do some business with a big
C#m iron on his hip.
A Big iron on
E his hip.
_ .
_ _ _ In this town there
Em lived an outlaw
C#m by the name of Texas Ray, _ _ Many
E men had tried to take him and that many
C#m men were dead.
_ .
_ He
A was vicious and a killer
E though he was twenty-four, And the notches on his pistol numbered one in nineteen more.
A One in
E nineteen more.
_ .
_ _ _ Now the stranger started talking made
G# it plain to folks
C#m around, _ _ Was
E an Arizona ranger wouldn't be
C#m too long in town.
_ _
A He came here to take an outlaw
E back alive or maybe dead, And he said it didn't matter he
C#m was after Texas Ray.
F#m After
E Texas Ray.
_ _ _ Wasn't long before the story
C#m was relayed to Texas Ray, _ _ _
E But the outlaw didn't worry men that tried
C#m before were dead.
_ _ _
E _ Twenty
A men had tried to take him
E twenty men had made a slip, Twenty-one would be the ranger
C#m with a big iron on his hip.
Big iron
E on his hip.
_ _ _ _ The morning passed so quickly it was
G# time for them to
C#m meet, _ _ _
E It was twenty past eleven when they walked out
C#m in the street.
_ _
A Folks were watching from the windows
E everybody held their breath, They knew this handsome ranger was
C#m about to meet his death.
A About
E to meet his death.
_ _ _ _ There was forty feet between them when
C#m they stopped to make their play, _ _ And the swiftness of
E the ranger is still talked about
C#m today.
_ _ Texas
A Ray did not clear leather
E for a bullet fairly ripped, And the ranger's aim was deadly
Fm with a
C#m big iron on his hip.
A Big iron
E on his hip.
_ _ _ It was over in
C#m a moment and the folks had gathered round, _ _
E There before them lay the body of the outlaw
C#m on the ground.
_ _ Oh
A he might have went on living
E but he made one fatal slip, When he tried to match the ranger
C#m with a big iron on his hip.
A Big iron on
E his hip.
_ _ _ _ .
A Big iron,
E big iron, When he tried to match the ranger with a big
C#m iron on his hip.
A Big iron on
E his hip.
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C#m _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .
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