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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 mornin' when he rode into the town
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He came riding from the south side slowly lookin' all a-round
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He's an outlaw loose and runnin' came the whisper from each lip
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And he's here to do some business with the big iron on his hip
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Big iron on his hip
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In this town there lived an outlaw by the name of Texas Red
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Many men had tried to take him and that many men were dead
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He was vicious and a killer, though a youth of twenty-four
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And the notches on his pistol numbered one and nineteen more
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One and nineteen more
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Now the stranger started talking made it plain to folks around
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He was an Arizona ranger wouldn't be too long in town
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He came here to take an outlaw back a-live or maybe dead
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And he said it didn't matter he was after Texas Red
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After Texas Red
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Wasn't long before the story was relay-ed to Texas Red
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But the outlaw didn't worry, men that tried before were dead
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Twenty men had tried to take him twenty men had made a slip
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Twenty one would be the stranger with the big iron on his hip
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Big iron on his hip
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The mornin' passed so quickly, it was time for them to meet
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It was twenty past eleven when they walked out in the street
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Folks were watchin' from their windows, everybody held their breath
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They knew this handsome ranger was a-bout to meet his death
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Was a-bout to meet his death
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There was forty feet between them when they stopped to make their play
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And the swiftness of the ranger is still talked about to-day
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Texas Red had not cleared leather when a bullet fairly ripped
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And the ranger's aim was deadly with the big iron on his hip
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The big iron on his hip
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Big iron, big iron
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When he tried to match the ranger with the big iron on his hip
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The big iron on his hip
