Chords for Gaelic Storm - "The Night I Punched Russell Crowe"

[E] Shh!
This next [Am] song [E] is a true story.
It's about the [B] time I got into a fist fight.
A [Em] _ _ fist fight [F#] with none other than Russell Crowe.
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[N] It's a very long story, but I'll make [C#] it short.
I got into a [A] fist fight with Russell Crowe.
_ [C#] _
He actually did.
It's pretty [A] much the only true story that you'll hear from us.
[N] Except for Johnny Tarr.
That was true.
Darcy's Donkey is true.
That's true as well.
The fight in New Orleans is true.
That was true.
Skydiving.
That was true.
Russell Crowe.
That's true.
Wow, [Fm] they're all true.
And I thought [B] we were a big bunch of liars.
_ [N] So for those of you who haven't heard the song before,
I had to kick him out of an Irish bar that I used to work in.
He was smoking.
I went onto the street.
He says, I kicked him out.
I said, tell you what, mate.
He goes, I'll fight you.
I said, no, no, I don't want to fight you.
He goes, come on, hit me.
So I did.
Bang.
One punch. _ _ _ _ _
I've seen Murphy fight.
One punch usually does it.
One punch usually does it.
My mother, when I was growing up and I was very small,
and I had no shoes and no food,
she said, hit first, hit hard and run.
Good advice.
Good advice.
He sometimes gets the order mixed up.
Yeah.
I run.
Yeah.
And then I used to hit [E] himself.
But that's what I did.
Russell [N] Crowe says, I'll tell you what, mate.
I'll give you a first punch.
I said, OK, here comes the right fist of fury.
Do you guys know Christie Brown?
He has his left foot.
My left foot.
I have the right fist of fury.
_ And you know what, ladies and gentlemen,
it was Russell Crowe.
I unleashed the right fist of fury.
And _ absolutely nothing.
He just stood there and_
And he looked at me and he said,
did you just hit me?
And my friend Chucky says, run.
_ He's a good friend.
Check him out on Facebook.
Chucky Crowley.
He lives in Russia.
Actually, he's the guy in Born to Be a Bachelor.
The Russian [F#] girlfriend.
He lives in Moscow.
His name is Chucky Crowley.
Am I telling the truth?
I was supposed to.
I thought I said it'd be a short story.
Jeez.
[N] Anyway, here we go.
Russell Crowe.
The song is called
The Night I Punched Russell Crowe in the [E] Head.
Here we go.
_ _ Mark.
Go. Cut. _ _
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[C#m] _ _ [E] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [A] Go.
You.
To.
[E] The.
Door.
_ _ _ _ Then he squared right up to me.
So un-surprised, then he narrowed up his gaze,
shot me daggers right into his eyes.
If you think you're man enough,
go ahead, he said.
I was scared for my life, so I [A] got him in the head.
Oh yeah.
Here we go.
Chess with the head.
Never miss.
[A] The closest I've come to ending up dead
[B] was the night that I punched Russell [F#] Crowe,
the gladiator in [E] Miami. _ _
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Then he lifted up his hands, he put them to his nose.
The blood was running through his fingers, dripping on his toes.
His bodyguards ran up, get him, Shaq!
Go!
But, cry, Chucky, run and don't stop [E] until you get to Mexico.
Arriba, hija!
A comer!
The _ [A] closest I've come to ending up dead
[B] was the night that I [E] punched Russell Crowe,
the gladiator in Miami.
_ All right, Kelly, Clintus, here, everybody, sing it, here we go.
[A] The closest I've come to ending up dead
[B] was the night that I punched Russell Crowe,
[Dm] the gladiator [E] in Miami.
Yeah!
_ _ Oy, oy, oy, oy, oy, _ _ [C#] _ [A] oy! _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] You can't hit me, I'm the [B] Cinderella man.
_ [E] I'm the Cinderella man, [B] I'm the Cinderella man.
You [A] can't hit me, you're too lonely to run me out the big way.
Oy, Chucky, move, move.
I am [E] Maximo! _ _ _
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_ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Wow. _