Fairport Convention - Crazy Man Michael Lyrics

Lyrics Crazy Man Michael - Fairport Convention



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
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
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 the wild wolves their pardon
For his true love is flown into every flower grown
And he must be keeper of the garden



Writer(s): Richard Thompson, Dave Swarbrick


Fairport Convention - Collected
Album Collected
date of release
05-10-2012

1 Time Will Show the Wiser
2 I Don't Know Where I Stand
3 Jack O' Diamonds
4 Decameron
5 Sun Shade
6 Reno, Nevada
7 Fotheringay
8 I'll Keep It With Mine
9 Eastern Rain
10 She Moves Through the Fair
11 Meet On the Ledge
12 Mr. Lacey
13 Book Song
14 Si Tu Dois Partir
15 A Sailor's Life
16 Who Knows Where The Time Goes?
17 Autopsy
18 Percy's Song
19 Genesis Hall
20 The Ballad of Easy Rider
21 Come All Ye
22 Tam Lin
23 Farewell, Farewell
24 Matty Groves
25 Crazy Man Michael
26 Sir Patrick Spens
27 Walk Awhile
28 Sloth
29 Now Be Thankful - Mono Version
30 Poor Will And The Jolly Hangman
31 The Journeyman's Grace
32 Bridge Over the River Ash
33 Lord Marlborough
34 The Bonny Black Hare
35 Angel Delight
36 John Lee
37 Breakfast In Mayfair
38 Hanging Song
39 The Hens March / The Four Poster Bed (Edited)
40 The Hexhamshire Lass
41 Polly On the Shore
42 The Brilliancy Medley & Cherokee Shuffle
43 Restless
44 White Dress
45 Dawn
46 Stranger To Himself
47 Adieu Adieu
48 The Eynsham Poacher
49 The Last Waltz
50 The Widow of Westmorland
51 Ye Mariners All
52 Three Drunken Maidens




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