Chords for Big Iron | The Longest Johns

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