Crazy Man Michael Kate Rusby

[Verse 1]
Oh, within the fire and out upon the sea
Crazy man Michael was walking
He met with a raven with eyes black as coals
And shortly they fell a-talking
"Your future, your future I will tell to you
Your future you often have asked me
Your true love will die by your own right hand
And crazy man Michael will cursed be"

[Verse 2]
Oh, Michael he ranted and Michael he raved
And he beat the four winds with his fists-o
He laughed and he cried, he shouted and he sworе
For his mad mind had trapped him with a kiss-o
"You speak with an evil, you spеak with a hate
You speak for the devil that haunts me
For is she not the fairest in all the broad land?
Your sorcerer's words are to taunt me"

[Verse 3]
He took out his dagger of fire and of steel
And he struck down the bird through the heart-o
The bird fluttered long, the sky it did spin
And the cold earth did wonder and startle
"Oh, where is the raven that I struck down dead
That here did lie on the ground-o?
I see that my love has a wound so red
Where her lover's heart it did pound-o"