The song Big Iron is performed by Johnny Cash in the album named Unearthed in the year 2003 .
To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day
Hardly spoke to folks around him didn't have too much to say
No one dared to ask his business, no one dared to make a slip
For the stranger there among them had a big iron on his hip
Big iron on his hip
It was early in the mornin' when he rode into the town
He came riding from the south side slowly lookin' all around
He's an outlaw loose and runnin' came the whisper from each lip
And he's here to do some business with the big iron on his hip
Big iron on his hip
In this town there lived an outlaw by the name of Texas Red
Many men had tried to take him and that many men were dead
He was vicious and a killer, though a youth of twenty-four
And the notches on his pistol numbered one and nineteen more
One and nineteen more
Now the stranger started talking made it plain to folks around
He was an Arizona ranger wouldn't be too long in town
He came here to take an outlaw back alive or maybe dead
And he said it didn't matter he was after Texas Red
After Texas Red
The mornin' pa*sed so quickly, it was time for them to meet
It was twenty past eleven when they walked out in the street
Folks were watchin' from their windows, everybody held their breath
They knew this handsome ranger was about to meet his death
Was about to meet his death
There was forty feet between them when they stopped to make their play
And the swiftness of the ranger is still talked about today
Texas Red had not cleared leather when a bullet fairly ripped
And the ranger's aim was deadly with the big iron on his hip
The big iron on his hip
Big iron, big iron
When he tried to match the ranger with the big iron on his hip
The big iron on his hip
Johnny Cash - Unearthed
- Long Black Veil
- Flesh & Blood
- Just The Other Side
- If I Give My Soul
- Understand Your Man
- Banks Of The Ohio
- Two Timing Woman
- The Caretaker
- Old Chunk Of Coal
- I'm Going To Memphis
- Breaking Bread
- Waiting For A Train
- Casey's Last Ride
- No Earthly Good
- The Fourth Man In The Fire
- Dark As A Dungeon
- Book Review
- Down There By The Train
- Pochohantas
- I'm A Drifter (Version 1, Heartbreaker version)
- Trouble In Mind
- Down The Line
- I'm Movin' On
- As Long As The Grass Shall Grow
- Heart Of Gold
- The Running Kind (with Tom Petty)
- Everybody's trying To Be My Baby (with Carl Perkins)
- Brown-Eyed Handsome Man (with Carl Perkins)
- T Is For Texas
- Devil's Right Hand
- I'm A Drifter (Version 2)
- Like A Soldier
- Drive On
- Bird On A Wire (Live)
- A Singer Of Songs
- The L & N Don't Stop Here Anymore
- Redemption Song (with Joe Strummer)
- Father & Son (with Fiona Apple)
- Chattanooga Sugar Babe
- He Stopped Loving Her Today
- Hard Times
- Wichita Lineman
- Cindy (with Nick Cave)
- Big Iron
- Salty Dog
- Gentle On My Mind
- You Are My Sunshine
- You'll Never Walk Alone
- The Man Comes Around (Early Take)
- Where We'll Never Grow Old
- I Shall Not Be Moved
- I Am A Pilgrim
- Do Lord
- When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder
- If We Never Meet Again This Side Of Heaven
- I'll Fly Away
- Where The Soul Of Man Never Dies
- Let The Lower Lights Be Burning
- When He Reached Down
- In The Sweet By And By
- I'm Bound For The Promised Land
- In The Garden
- Softly And Tenderly
- Just As I Am
- Delia's Gone
- Bird On A Wire (Album Version)
- Thirteen
- Rowboat
- The One Rose
- Rusty Cage
- Southern Accents
- Mercy Seat
- Solitary Man
- Wayfaring Stranger
- One
- Hung My Head
- The Man Comes Around (Album Version)
- We'll Meet Again
- Hurt