Big Iron Chords by Johnny Cash

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