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
The stranger there among them had a big iron on his hip
– Marty Robbins
Big Iron was real, a .45-caliber copy of the Colt single-action Army revolver with a cut-down Marlin rifle barrel. Marty Robbins saw it in Andy Anderson’s famous Hollywood Fast Draw Holster shop in the late 1950s and decided to write a song about it. #funfact