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  • Big Iron
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  • 1959 songs
  • Columbia Records singles
  • Country ballads
  • Johnny Cash songs
  • Marty Robbins songs
  • Michael Martin Murphey songs
  • Western music (North America)
  • Songs written by Marty Robbins
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  • %22Big Iron%22 is a country ballad by Marty Robbins, originally released as an album track on Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs in September 1959, then as a single in February 1960 with the song Saddle Tramp as the B-side single. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.It tells the story of an Arizona Ranger's duel with an outlaw named Texas Red in the %22town of Agua Fria%22. The town predicts the death of the Ranger (Texas Red had already killed 20 men), but the Ranger kills Texas Red with the swiftness of the %22big iron on his hip.%22 This term refers to the gun the Ranger carries.Robbins' version of the song reached #5 on the Billboard Country chart and #26 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in April 1960.The song is also featured in the video game Fallout: New Vegas on the in-game radio.The Ranger's %22Big Iron%22 actually existed. It was a one-off custom handgun chambered in .45 Colt and featured a Great Western copy of the Colt Single Action Army frame, Colt 1860 Army backstrap, grip frame and grips and a cut down 9 1/2%22 Marlin rifle barrel. Marty Robbins saw it in Andy Anderson's famed North Hollywood gun shop in the late 1950s and wrote the song around it. Its current whereabouts are unknown.
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  • Big Iron
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