Big Iron

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To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day
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Hardly spoke to folks around him, didn't have too much to say
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No one dared to ask his business, no one dared to make a slip
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For the stranger there among them had a big iron on his hip
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Big iron on his hip

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It was early in the morning when he rode into the town
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He came riding from the south side, slowly looking all around
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He was an Arizona Ranger, wouldn't be too long in town
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He was there to take an outlaw back a-dead or a-live, he said
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Back a-dead or a-live, he said

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Now the outlaw had a name, it was Texas Red
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He was vicious and a killer, though he was twenty-one
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The folks had said he was a killer, he was known throughout the land
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And the ranger said he’d do his best to take him down
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Take him down, he said