Crazy Man Michael Songtext
von Richard Thompson

Within the fire and out upon the sea
Crazy man Michael was walking
He met with a raven with eyes black as coal
And shortly they were talking

"Your future, your future I will tell to you
Your future you often have asked me
For your true love will die by your own right hand
And crazy man Michael will cast him be"

Michael he ratted and Michael he ribed
And he beat at the four winds with his fist-o
He laughed and he cried and 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 isn′t she 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 he 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

"Now where is that raven that I struck down dead
That here did lie on the ground-o?
I see just my true love with a wound so red
Where her lover′s heart it did pound-o"

Crazy man Michael he wanders and walks
And he talks to the night and the day-o
But his eye it is sane and his speech it is plain
And he longs to be far, far away-o


Michael he whistles the simplest of tunes
And asks of the wild woods their pardon
For his true love is flung into every flower grown
And he must be keeper of the garden