Crazy Man Michael-Fairport Convention

[ti:Crazy Man Michael] [ar:Fairport Convention] [al:Meet On The Ledge: The Classic Years (1967-1975)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Crazy Man Michael - Fairport Convention (公平港口大会) [00:15.09]Within the fire and out upon the sea [00:21.37]Crazy Man Michael was walking [00:27.27]He met with a raven with eyes black as coals [00:33.69]And shortly they were a-talking [00:39.72]Your future your future I will tell to you [00:46.08]Your future you often have asked me [00:51.39]Your true love will die by your own right hand [00:58.26]And Crazy Man Michael will cursed be [01:05.06]Michael he ranted and Michael he raved [01:10.65]And beat at the four winds with his fists-oh [01:16.88]He laughed and he cried he shouted and he swore [01:23.27]For his mad mind had trapped him with a kiss-oh [01:29.45]You speak with an evil you speak with a hate [01:35.70]You speak for the devil that haunts me [01:41.29]For is she not the fairest in all the broad land [01:47.67]Your sorcerer's words are to taunt me [02:43.56]He took out his dagger of fire and of steel [02:49.95]And struck down the raven through the heart-oh [02:55.99]The bird fluttered long and the sky it did spin [03:02.06]And the cold earth did wonder and start-oh [03:08.46]Oh where is the raven that I struck down dead [03:14.85]That here did lie on the ground-oh [03:19.96]I see but my true love with a wound so rare [03:26.62]Where her lover's heart it did pound-oh [03:30.07] [03:32.95]Crazy Man Michael he wandered as a corpse [03:39.47]And talks to the night and the day-oh [03:43.92]But his eyes they are sane and his speech it is plain [03:51.40]And he longs to be far away-oh [03:57.79]Michael he whistles the simplest of tunes [04:02.95]And asks the wild woods their pardon [04:08.93]For his true love is flown into every flower grown [04:15.25]And he must be keeper of the garden