B5          D5        A5           F5
Within the fire and out upon the sea
B5          A5            B5
Crazy Man Michael was walking
B5              D5         A5             F5
He met with a raven with eyes black as coals
B5           A5            B5
And shortly they were a-talking


F5                           B5
"Your future, your future, I would tell to you
F5                           A5
Your future, you often have asked me
B5                   A5          B5         F5
Your true love will die by your own right hand
B5              A5            B5
And Crazy Man Michael will cursed be"


B5          D5        A5           F5
Michael he ranted and Michael he raved
B5                     A5             B5
And beat at the four winds with his fists-oh
B5                  D5         A5             F5
He laughed and he cried, he shouted and he swore
B5                      A5                B5
For his mad mind had trapped him with a kiss-oh


       F5                     B5
"You speak with an evil, you speak with a hate
     F5                        A5
You speak for the devil that haunts me
    B5               A5        B5             F5
For is she not the fairest in all the broad land?
        B5        A5            B5
Your sorceror's words are to taunt me"


B5                D5        A5           F5
He took out his dagger of fire and of steel
      F5                               A5
And struck down the raven through the heart-oh
B5                   D5           A5          F5
The bird fluttered long and the sky it did spin
F5             A5                   B5
And the cold earth did wonder and start-oh


      F5                         B5
"Oh, where is the raven that I struck down dead
      F5                      A5
That here'd lie here on the ground-oh?
  B5          A5                B5      F5
I see but my true love with a wound so red"
      B5     A5            B5
Her lover's heart it did pound-oh


B5           D5         A5           F5
Crazy Man Michael, he wanders and walks

And talks to the night and the day-oh
B5                     D5            A5            F5
But his eyes they are sane and his speech it is clear
        B5          A5   B5
And he longs to be far away-oh


  F5                      B5
Michael he whistles the simplest of tunes
     F5                         A5
And asks the wild woods their pardon
         B5            A5         B5           F5
For his true love is flown into every flower grown
    B5          A5             B5
And he must be keeper of the garden

Chords by COTH