A5 E5 A5 C5 A5 To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day C5 A5 Hardly spoke to folks around him didn't have too much to say F5 C5 No one dared to ask his business no one dared to make a slip A5 for the stranger there amongst them had a big iron on his hip F5 C5 Big iron on his hip C5 A5 It was early in the morning when he rode into the town C5 A5 He came riding from the south side slowly lookin' all around F5 C5 He's an outlaw loose and running came the whisper from each lip A5 And he's here to do some business with the big iron on his hip F5 C5 big iron on his hip C5 A5 In this town there lived an outlaw by the name of Texas Red C5 A5 Many men had tried to take him and that many men were dead F5 C5 He was vicious and a killer though a youth of twenty four A5 And the notches on his pistol numbered one an nineteen more F5 C5 One and nineteen more C5 A5 Now the stranger started talking made it plain to folks around C5 A5 Was an Arizona ranger wouldn't be too long in town F5 C5 He came here to take an outlaw back alive or maybe dead A5 And he said it didn't matter he was after Texas Red F5 C5 After Texas Red C5 A5 Wasn't long before the story was relayed to Texas Red C5 A5 But the outlaw didn't worry men that tried before were dead F5 C5 Twenty men had tried to take twenty men had made a slip A5 Twenty one would be the ranger with the big iron on his hip F5 C5 Big iron on his hip C5 A5 The morning passed so quickly it was time for them to meet C5 A5 It was twenty past eleven when they walked out in the street F5 C5 Folks were watching from their windows every-body held their breath A5 They knew this handsome ranger was about to meet his death F5 C5 About to meet his death C5 There was forty feet between them when they stopped to make their A5 play C5 A5 And the swiftness of the ranger is still talked about to-day F5 C5 Texas Red had not cleared leather when a bullet fairly ripped A5 And the rangers aim was deadly with the big iron on his hip F5 C5 Big iron on his hip C5 A5 It was over in a moment and the folks had gathered round C5 A5 There before them lay the body of the outlaw on the ground F5 C5 Oh he might have gone on living but he made one fatal slip A5 When he tried to match the ranger with the big iron on his hip F5 C5 Big iron on his hip Big iron Big iron C5 A5 When he tried to match the ranger with the big iron on his hip
