Crazy Man Michael

Crazy Man Michael - Klaus Weiland

With in forest

Down by the sea

Crazy man Michael was walking on

He met with a raven

With eyes black as coal

And presently they were talking on

Your future your future

I will tell to you

Your future

You always have asked me

Your true love will die

By your own right hand

And crazy man Michael

Will cursed be

He took out his dagger

Of fine and broad steel

And struck down the raven

Through the heart o

The black fluttered long

And the sky it did spin

And this cold earth did

Fluttered and startled

But where is the raven

That I struck down dead

Fluttered and lye

On the ground o

I see my true love

With a wound so red

Where her lover's heart

Did pound o

Crazy man Michael

He walks alone

He talks through

The night and the day o

His eyes they are sane

And his speech is plain

But he longs to be far away o

Now Michael he whistles

The simplest of tunes

Asked not the wild ones

Their pardon

For his true love has flown

Into every flower grown

And he

Must be keeper

Of the garden