Spanish Bit Bobb Posted January 19, 2011 Share Posted January 19, 2011 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted January 19, 2011 Share Posted January 19, 2011 It was early in the morning when he rode into the town He came riding from the south side slowly lookin' all around He's an outlaw loose and running 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellowhouse Sam # 25171 Posted January 19, 2011 Share Posted January 19, 2011 He came here to do some business and he didn't give a flip. He meant to straighten all the wrinkles With tha big iron on his hip. That close enough fellas? The verses escape me! Do Mister Shorty come in and speak with his .44 yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spanish Bit Bobb Posted January 19, 2011 Author Share Posted January 19, 2011 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 an nineteen more One and nineteen more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted January 19, 2011 Share Posted January 19, 2011 Now the stranger started talking made it plain to folks around 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major Art Tillery Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 It wasn't long before the story we relayed to Texas Red But the outlaw didn't worry men that tried before were dead Twenty Men had tried to take him, Twenty men had made a slip Twenty one would be the ranger with a big iron on his hip A Big Iron on his hip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apache Hawk 60642 Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 Dat der be a mitey fine song from Mr. Marty Robbins !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 The morning passed so quickly it was time for them to meet It was twenty past eleven when they walked out in the street Folks were watching from the windows every-body held their breath They knew this handsome ranger was about to meet his death 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 fore a bullet fairly ripped And the ranger's aim was deadly with the big iron on his hip. Big iron on his hip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellowhouse Sam # 25171 Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 I wore a needle through all his gunfighter albums way back and if the Masters Call don't raise the hair on your neck...nothing will. Don't go to many concerts but I went to one of his and met him afterwards. He was the most entertaining, gracious, and humble person you'd ever meet. Glad I did cause a few months later he was gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 I sure enjoy his music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackwater 53393 Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 I met him when my dad worked security at the Grand Ole Opry, and again later at the Fairgrounds Speedway in Nashville where my dad also raced. I'm not sure ANYONE enjoyed entertaining any more than Marty. One of VERY FEW country artists that I really liked to listen to. These new ones ain't fit to share the genre with guys like Marty 'n' Ray Price 'n' a few more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oklahomabound Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 ...is this it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqWgTi2bIOc ...enjoy!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spanish Bit Bobb Posted January 20, 2011 Author Share Posted January 20, 2011 It was over in a moment and the folks had gathered round There before them lay the body of the outlaw on the ground Oh he might have went on living but he made one fatal slip When he tried to match the ranger with the big iron on his hip Big iron on his hip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 We FAST GUNS have to be careful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spanish Bit Bobb Posted January 20, 2011 Author Share Posted January 20, 2011 We FAST GUNS have to be careful. maybe awl rite a song about you...awl make ya famous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deja Vous Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 Marty Robbins.. I loved his stuff.. Devil Women was so good.. But I am a huge fan of Chris Ledoux too.. lol... He is just plain ole funny.. I love funny songs.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spanish Bit Bobb Posted January 20, 2011 Author Share Posted January 20, 2011 Back in high school, with a lil' help frum Lord Calvert...us fellers wood belt out 'El Paso'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noz Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 You Mean? Out in the west Texas town of El Paso, I fell in love with a Mexican girl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 Back in high school, with a lil' help frum Lord Calvert...us fellers wood belt out 'El Paso'. I'll just bet that was gold record material. Marty musta been worried about losing record sales. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellowhouse Sam # 25171 Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 El Paso City has almost errie lyrics...as if he had a premonition. I have Martys very first album...somewhere.. and it had the usual music of the day. Shackles and Chains is the best on that album. Marty, Ray Price, Billy Walker, Stonewall Jackson....they don't make em no more. Ray's still singin though and good as ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spanish Bit Bobb Posted January 20, 2011 Author Share Posted January 20, 2011 Night-time would find me in Rosa's cantina; Music would play and Felina would whirl. Thas tha one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 Blacker than night were the eyes of Felina, Wicked and evil while casting a spell. My love was deep for this Mexican maiden; I was in love but in vain, I could tell. (I love this stuff) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorelei Longshot, SASS #44256 Life Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 Another of my favorites The Alamo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL62m5umP4g&NR=1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 One night a wild young cowboy came in, Wild as the West Texas wind. Dashing and daring, A drink he was sharing With wicked Felina, The girl that I loved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montana Slick, SASS #64415 Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 Marty must have been a Charlie Brown fan, he liked to play the minnie sized piano on Pop Goes the Country. Was it Linus at his best? Martin Robinson, sorta has a ring to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 So in anger I Challenged his right for the love of this maiden. Down went his hand for the gun that he wore. My challenge was answered in less than a heart-beat; The handsome young stranger lay dead on the floor. Marty was fast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spanish Bit Bobb Posted January 20, 2011 Author Share Posted January 20, 2011 Just for a moment I stood there in silence, Shocked by the FOUL EVIL deed I had done. Many thoughts raced through my mind as I stood there; I had but one chance and that was to run. Dont apologize Marty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 Out through the back door of Rosa's I ran, Out where the horses were tied. I caught a good one. It looked like it could run. Up on its back And away I did ride, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spanish Bit Bobb Posted January 20, 2011 Author Share Posted January 20, 2011 Just as fast as I Could from the West Texas town of El Paso Out to the bad-lands of New Mexico. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellowhouse Sam # 25171 Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 Similar genre...written by Ken Farrell but best version sung by Robert Earle Keen K. Farrell Sonora's Deathrow Me and the boy's we cinched up our saddles and rode to sonora last night Gun's hanging proud, daring out loud for any one looking to fight Card cheats and rustlers would run for their holes when the boys from the old broken O Rode up and reined on the street that they named Sonora's death row Mescal is free at Amanda's saloon for the boy's from the old broken O Saturday nights in the town of Sonora are the best in all Mexico They've got guitars and trumpets and sweet senoritas who won't want to let you go You'd never believe such a gay happy time on the street called Sonora's death row Inside Amanda's we was a dancin' with all of Amanda's gals I won some silver at seven card stud so I was out doin' my pals But the whiskey and mescal, peso cigars drove me outside for some air Somebody whispered "Your life or your money", I reached but my gun wasn't there I woke up face down in Amanda's back alley aware of the fool I had been Rushed to my pony, grabbed my Winchester and entered Amanda's again Where I saw my partners twirling my pistols and throwing my money around Blinded by anger, I jacked the lever and one of them fell to the ground Amanda's got silent like night in the desert, my friends stared in pure disbelief Amanda was kneeling beside the dead cowboy plainly expressing her grief And as I bowed my head a trembled shot through me my six-gun was still at my side I felt my pockets, there was my money, I fell to my knees and I cried A nightmare of mescal is all that it was for no one had robbed me at all I wish I was dreaming the sound of the gallows they're testing just outside The wall The mescal's still free at Amanda's saloon for the boy's from the old Broken O I'd give a ransom to drink there today and be free of Sonora's death row I'd give a ransom to drink there today and be free of Sonora's death row [ More Keen Robert Earl Lyrics ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 Back in El Paso my life would be worthless. Everything's gone in life; nothing is left. It's been so long since I've seen the young maiden My love is stronger than my fear of death. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spanish Bit Bobb Posted January 21, 2011 Author Share Posted January 21, 2011 I saddled up and away I did go, Riding alone in the dark. Maybe tomorrow A bullet may find me. Tonight nothing's worse than this Pain in my heart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckhorn Woodie Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 Marty Robbins.. I loved his stuff.. Devil Women was so good.. But I am a huge fan of Chris Ledoux too.. lol... He is just plain ole funny.. I love funny songs.. If I wasn't so damn married I would be temped to ride south and come cort'en with a box of bullets in one hand and LeDoux tapes in the other Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 And at last here I Am on the hill overlooking El Paso; I can see Rosa's cantina below. My love is strong and it pushes me onward. Down off the hill to Felina I go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckhorn Woodie Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 You Mean? Out in the west Texas town of El Paso, I fell in love with a Mexican girl. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgI5DMVegIk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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