Fairport Convention - Crazy Man Michael Lyrics
Within the fire and out upon the seaCrazy Man Michael was walkingHe met with a raven with eyes black as coalsAnd shortly they were a-talking"Your future, your future, I would tell to youYour future, you often have asked meYour true love will die by your own right handAnd Crazy Man Michael will cursed be"Michael he ranted and Michael he ravedAnd beat at the four winds with his fists-ohHe laughed and he cried, he shouted and he sworeFor his mad mind had trapped him with a kiss-oh"You speak with an evil, you speak with a hateYou speak for the devil that haunts meFor is she not the fairest in all the broad land?Your sorceror's words are to taunt me"He took out his dagger of fire and of steelAnd struck down the raven through the heart-ohThe bird fluttered long and the sky it did spinAnd the cold earth did wonder and start-oh"Oh, where is the raven that I struck down deadThat here'd lie on the ground-oh?I see but my true love with a wound so red"Her lover's heart it did pound-ohCrazy Man Michael, he wanders and walksAnd talks to the night and the day-ohBut his eyes they are sane and his speech it is clearAnd he longs to be far away-ohMichael he whistles the simplest of tunesAnd asks the wild woods their pardonFor his true love is flown into every flower grownAnd he must be keeper of the garden
