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