Big Iron chords

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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.
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_ 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.
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_ _ _ 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.
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_ 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.
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_ _ _ 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.
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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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