Crazy Man Michael-Fairport Convention

[00:00.51]Artist：fairport convention [00:01.52]Songs Title：crazy man michael [00:04.32] [00:15.33]Within the fire and out upon the sea [00:20.40] [00:21.47]Crazy Man Michael was walking [00:25.49] [00:26.98]He met with a raven with eyes black as coals [00:32.93] [00:33.82]And shortly they were a-talking [00:37.93] [00:39.92]Your future, your future, I will tell to you [00:45.24] [00:46.29]Your future, you often have asked me [00:51.10] [00:52.04]Your true love will die by your own right hand [00:57.28] [00:58.53]And Crazy Man Michael will cursed be [01:03.25] [01:05.31]Michael he ranted and Michael he raved [01:10.05] [01:10.93]And beat at the four winds with his fists-oh [01:15.29] [01:16.47]He laughed and he cried, he shouted and he swore [01:22.43] [01:23.48]For his mad mind had trapped him with a kiss-oh [01:28.99] [01:29.88]You speak with an evil, you speak with a hate [01:35.01] [01:36.06]You speak for the devil that haunts me [01:40.75] [01:41.69]For is she not the fairest in all the broad land? [01:47.30] [01:48.05]Your sorcerer's words are to taunt me [01:53.27] [02:43.94]He took out his dagger of fire and of steel [02:49.18] [02:50.18]And struck down the raven through the heart-oh [02:54.38] [02:56.14]The bird fluttered long and the sky it did spin [03:01.45] [03:02.57]And the cold earth did wonder and start-oh [03:07.19] [03:08.76]Oh, where is the raven that I struck down dead [03:13.99] [03:14.86]That here did lie on the ground-oh? [03:19.11] [03:20.37]I see but my true love with a wound so rare [03:26.25] [03:26.81]Where her lover's heart it did pound-oh [03:31.46] [03:33.35]Crazy Man Michael he wandered as a corpse [03:38.53] [03:39.34]And talks to the night and the day-oh [03:43.93] [03:44.68]But his eyes they are sane and his speech it is plain [03:50.61] [03:51.48]And he longs to be far away-oh [03:54.83] [03:58.13]Michael he whistles the simplest of tunes [04:02.44] [04:03.50]And asks the wild woods their pardon [04:08.65] [04:09.21]For his true love is flown into every flower grown [04:14.97] [04:15.79]And he must be keeper of the garden