Crazy Man Michael Lyrics - Richard Thompson

Within the fire and out upon the sea 

Crazy man Michael was walking 

He met with a raven with eyes black as coals 

And shortly they were a-talking 

Your future, your future I would tell to you 

Your future you often have asked me 

Your true love will die by your own right hand 

And crazy man Michael will cursèd be 

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Michael he ranted and Michael he raved 

And beat up the four winds with his fists o 

He laughed and he cried, he shouted and he swore 

For his mad mind had trapped him with a kiss o 

You speak with an evil, you speak with a hate 

You speak for the devil that haunts me 

For is she not the fairest in all the broad land 

Your sorcerer's words are to taunt me 

He took out his dagger of fire and of steel 

And struck down the raven through the heart o 

The bird fluttered long and the sky it did spin 

And the cold earth did wonder and startle 

O where is the raven that I struck down dead 

And here did lie on the ground o 

I see that my true love with a wound so red 

Where her lover's heart it did pound o 

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Crazy man Michael he wanders and calls 

And talks to the night and the day o 

But his eyes they are sane and his speech it is plain 

And he longs to be far away o 

Michael he whistles the simplest of tunes 

And asks of the wild wolves their pardon 

For his true love is flown into every flower grown 

And he must be keeper of the garden