Fairport Convention – Crazy Man Michael chords

Amazing track written by Richard Thompson and David Swarbrick and sung by Sandy 
Denny on Fairport Convention's "Liefe & Lief" album.


Bm          D        A           FmWithin the fire and out upon the sea
Bm          A            BmCrazy Man Michael was walking
Bm              D         A             FmHe met with a raven with eyes black as coals
Bm           A            BmAnd shortly they were a-talking


Fm                           Bm"Your future, your future, I would tell to you
Fm                           AYour future, you often have asked me
Bm                   A          Bm         FmYour true love will die by your own right hand
Bm              A            BmAnd Crazy Man Michael will cursed be"


Bm          D        A           FmMichael he ranted and Michael he raved
Bm                     A             BmAnd beat at the four winds with his fists-oh
Bm                  D         A             FmHe laughed and he cried, he shouted and he swore
Bm                      A                BmFor his mad mind had trapped him with a kiss-oh


       Fm                     Bm"You speak with an evil, you speak with a hate
     Fm                        AYou speak for the devil that haunts me
    Bm               A        Bm             FmFor is she not the fairest in all the broad land?
        Bm        A            BmYour sorceror's words are to taunt me"


Bm                D        A           FmHe took out his dagger of fire and of steel
      Fm                               AAnd struck down the raven through the heart-oh
Bm                   D           A          FmThe bird fluttered long and the sky it did spin
Fm             A                   BmAnd the cold earth did wonder and start-oh


      Fm                         Bm"Oh, where is the raven that I struck down dead
      Fm                      AThat here'd lie here on the ground-oh?
  Bm          A                Bm      FmI see but my true love with a wound so red"
      Bm     A            BmHer lover's heart it did pound-oh


Bm           D         A           FmCrazy Man Michael, he wanders and walks

And talks to the night and the day-oh
Bm                     D            A            FmBut his eyes they are sane and his speech it is clear
        Bm          A   BmAnd he longs to be far away-oh


  Fm                      BmMichael he whistles the simplest of tunes
     Fm                         AAnd asks the wild woods their pardon
         Bm            A         Bm           FmFor his true love is flown into every flower grown
    Bm          A             BmAnd he must be keeper of the garden

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